Timing is Everything

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1

For several decades, George Burns and Gracie Allen entertained audiences with their unique humor. With George as the straight man and Gracie as the dizzy but lovable wife, they moved from vaudeville to radio to television - and into the hearts of millions.

Fro this husband and wife comedy team, everything depended on depending on each other. His questions set up her repaid-fire explanations. Her concluding one-liners needed his deadpan responses. The ability to reply at the right tie - and in the appropriate manner - made their comedy sparkle.

There's a mystique about timing. When it's right, it's fabulous. When it's wrong it's a disaster. It takes listening to the inner self to make it world. Not just in comedy, but in all of life.

We speak of the right timing to get married, to start a business, to have children, to change jobs, to risk a new venture, even to take a vacation. Some of us sense this timing intuitively; others plan it. Either way, we know that timing makes a difference. It affects our outlook and success, so sometimes we stop and say, "It's not the right time yet." And even if they don't understand, people make room for a delayed decision.

Oddly, we forget to give the same room to God.

Maybe it's because we know He's capable of doing anything, but we get impatient waiting for God. We forget that He waits for the right timing too. IN fact, He knows the perfect timing, even though it looks illogical to us. His ways are not our ways, and neither are his timetables our timetables.

But when we wait for His timing, nothing can compare with its abiding impact on us.

By Judith Couchman, taken from "Women's Devotional Bible 2"


Bible Reading Guide:

Beginning to End: I Chron. 22-24
Old and New Testaments Together: 2 Kings 4-6 & Luke 24:36-53
Historical: Isaiah 42-44
Chronological: Psalm 25, 29, 33, 36 & 39
Blended: Numbers 29-31 & Matthew 3

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