BEYOND GENERIC TIME
“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
2 Peter 3:8 NIV
One of the quiet struggles of faith is waiting. Waiting for answers, for justice, for change, for God to move in ways we can see and measure.
We are creatures of time, bound to calendars and deadlines, often interpreting God’s nearness by how quickly He responds. Yet Scripture reminds us that God does not operate within our limitations. His timing is not slow, nor is it hurried. It is perfect.
Peter’s words reorient our expectations. God is not constrained by the ticking of a clock, nor pressured by our urgency. What feels like delay to us is not neglect on His part. What seems long and drawn out may, in God’s sovereign wisdom, be only a moment in the unfolding of His purposes.
This truth calls us to deeper trust. If God stands outside of time, then He sees the full picture, every beginning, every ending, every detail in between. Our role is not to rush Him, but to remain faithful while we wait. Waiting, then, becomes an act of worship. It is where our faith is refined, our motives examined, and our dependence on God strengthened. Child of God, when impatience creeps in, this verse invites us to pause and remember who God is.
He is eternal, faithful, and purposeful. But most importantly, in His time – He makes all things beautiful.
Prayer: My Father, I thank you for this truth. I know that you are not bound by time as I am. Far be it from me to measure your faithfulness by my own timelines. By your spirit I am enabled to wait and to rest in the truth that your thoughts are higher than mine. Strengthen my faith as I learn to surrender my urgency to your perfect will, in Jesus name. Amen.
CI.
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• Lamentations 3:31
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