God has for me the best time

From: January 4-10, 2006 Study: # 425

TOPIC: “God has for me the best time” Psalms 145: 15-21 John 11:1-4 We certainly don't like to wait, but there is a preparation process in our life that takes time. We can see this clearly in Psalm 145: 15. Living in despair will only make us doubt, but for each one of us God gives a time. It is necessary for us to die to impatience in order to be able to see Gods glory. Moses was prepared in solitude for what God was to give him in his time. It becomes difficult for us to prepare ourselves because we get anxious. No one can take away what God has for us. Gods work is not a show; it is a lot of work. The greatest is the one who constantly serves and works. We must love the one who has called us. It is not how clever we can be with our words but with our acts to be able to understand the glory of God and know this God whom has called us and has chosen us when it is our turn. God feeds us, but there must be in us a hunger for God in our lives. We imitate Jesus, but He didn't have to prepare as Moses did. He was hidden 30 years, but it wasn’t because he had the need to prepare. He was God on earth and he left everything to come to earth and later had to leave. In Gods time the Father will give us the nourishment and we must go through whatever is necessary for us to go through. In John 11:1-4 Marta and Maria ignored what the times of God were. They had seen the Lord work but it takes time to know Jesus. Nobody will ever love us as He does. According to time we must grow and trust God. We sometimes doubt, but when we see the manifestation and we see Gods glory, this encourages us to continue to trust in God. God’s time is not the same as our time because we easily become desperate and we go crazy. Jesus took us by the hand, his blood is still alive upon us and He knows that we belong to him, so let us not worry. We try to reason out the circumstances that we are living, but God wants us to trust him. Marta and Maria thought that Jesus would come running because he loved them, but he didn't. Our life is written since the foundation of the earth. Walking in Jesus' steps will never bring confusion, nothing was going to confuse him, not even Lazarus death, and not even Marta and Maria’s request. God marks his times. Not even death worried him because He is the resurrection. No desperation will bring Jesus arrival nearer. When we fall into despair we speak more than what we should speak. He will arrive when it is the right time for our feeding. God knows when to feed us so we must not fall into despair or dismay. We think that things are the way we want, but it will always be as Jesus wants. Jesus knows the times. Those who know their time will never be confused by anyone. When we worry the Lord it is because his love is too great. Death was not a permanent result in Lazarus; he was to resuscitate in order to show Gods glory before his disciples. He will feed in his time for He knows the need of each one of us. What needs to be done will be done by Jesus but only in His time. Each process that we go through is a learning process that is necessary. Day plus day equals time for us to grow. If there is any worry in us it should be in order to grow. We must not be held up but always continue to grow. Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters. He is involved in all that we live.

We must enter the process of Gods teaching. What He will do in us is not for wrong but for good. If something has to be taught it’s His glory and this way it must be in our lives also. What seems to be more difficult here is where God will show His glory, because that produces more faith in us. Let no one upset us. Jesus took two days to arrive and in those days Lazarus died. Jesus was not refusing to go, but it was necessary to wait. Let us not worry for the time we have to wait but seek to see Gods glory. It is necessary for us to prepare ourselves, to grow, to mature and for our trust in God to grow more every day. He will never reject us. We sometimes think that our prayers take a long time to be answered, but what happens is that He is teaching us or training us to wait. Jesus will never hasten although he loves us more than anybody and although he has to feel what we are feeling. He is not indifferent to our condition, He knows what we are going through, what we are feeling, but it is necessary to learn so that when He arrives we know how to appreciate His arrival. He, more than anybody, can feel what we are living, for this reason He will arrive and He will do. He will not do it when we think but when we are prepared to receive the miracle. All that Jesus does is in obedience to the Father. Jesus knows how to respect that more than anyone and we must learn how to respect also. We sometimes want to force Jesus to move. He does it according to the divine program written for us. We will not perish, but we fear. Jesus doesn't fear dangers, but we do. As His children we should not fear of the dangers we have to face. Jesus was very clear that He had 12 hours, so Maria's or Thomas panic didn’t worry him. Those that love the Lord will not die until the work of God has concluded in them, so we have nothing to fear. Fear makes us take precautions, but it doesn't stop us from doing. Those who walk in the darkness are the ones who are not faithful to God because they walk in their own will and they don’t have divine direction, but those who have light walk with no fear. It is difficult to understand what is in Gods thoughts, for this reason it is necessary to have communion with Him. God strengthens our faith. We need to be strengthened in faith. Let us not fall into despair for what we are seeing because it is necessary for us to grow and get prepared. When things get bigger what God will do is greater. One cannot doubt of the faith that Marta had. When we have to wait to see a miracle we feel just as Martha did because our faith is not perfect, but that doesn't mean that we don't have faith. She had faith in what Jesus had taught her, but her faith was not perfect. As long as we see Jesus present we will see his glory. God doesn't get tired. Our faith must be an absolute rest in God and He will do. Verse 17 Gossip comes when there is doubt. We must be careful because when we gossip we are gossiping about the one who does the miracles. We must not lend our ears to gossip. Jesus works when there are men and women that move Him. We must not ask from Jesus as a machine that repeats itself, but by touching him. If we don't touch God we haven’t done anything. He waits upon the Father's time, on what has to happen in our life. Each one does what is expected. We didn’t write the divine plan for our life, but God did. We sometimes decide and we speak of what will happen, but we don't know it. Verse 40 Those who believe will see the glory of God. That is what we want to see. The power of God is greater than we can even imagine. His glory arrives when we believe and we move God. It is not when we think but when the glory of God descends. There is no need to fear; His glory will be manifested. Amen.