Jesus’ Words in Red
The Right Time
"The right time for me has not yet come;
for you any time is right.”
The “Right” time verses
“Now” time
Jesus watches the
clock, He says
"The right time for me has not yet come”
Can you imagine how
much God wants to see His Kingdom come in all its glory
The time when human
suffering
The rule of
injustice will end
I marvel all the
time at why not NOW
Jesus sees our
impatience with time and our wanting everything NOW
Jesus says
“For you any time is right.”
Can you be faithful
till the right time comes?
The Right Time
Jesus watches the clock, He says…
"The right time for me has not yet come”
Can you imagine how much God wants
to see His Kingdom come in all its glory.
The time when human suffering
The rule of injustice will end.
I marvel all the time at why not NOW.
Jesus sees our impatience with time
and our wanting everything NOW.
Jesus says…
“For you any time is right.”
Let’s take a brief look at seven scriptures about time…
Isaiah 40:31
“But those who hope in
the LORD
will renew their
strength.”
Timing means waiting, remain hopeful.
When the difficult times of life
go on, they can wear us out.
We can lose energy and strength
to deal with those troubling times.
It is hope that gets us through those times.
Being hopeful, not a false hope, but a hope in God.
Knowing He is fully aware and at work.
This hopefulness is expressed in gratitude.
The gratitude that praises God in the storm.
It is this hope that gives overcoming strength.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
“There is a time for
everything, and a
season for every
activity under heaven:”
Timing is seasons.
Our lives are made up of seasons.
Seasons change and each season has a purpose.
Knowing what season we are in helps us
know what we are to do and what we have
to look forward to as the season changes.
2 Peter 3:8-9
“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. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise,
as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to
perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
The timing of God is in thousands
of years while ours is in days.
God’s view of a thousand years
does not overlook your need of today.
In that thousand years, there is not one
day God wants to see one person perish.
Although we cannot see the
big picture of thousands of years…
We can be confident that God will be
faithful to lead you each day to repent from
the things that will destroy your tomorrow.
So His promises will come if you
and I repent of our lack of faith.
Acts 1:7-8
"It is not for you to know the times or
dates
the Father has set by
his own authority.
8 But you will receive
power when the Holy Spirit
comes on you; and you
will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
God holds the ultimate authority over time.
His dates and appointments
are not always revealed.
But God gives us the Holy Spirit so we can
witness with authority where we live and beyond.
You and I should not worry
about God’s dates and timing.
We should concern ourselves with
the fact we are appointed to witness.
Galatians 4:4-6
“But when the time had
fully come,
God sent his Son, born
of a woman,
born under law, to
redeem those under law,
that we might receive
the full rights of sons.”
God keeps His appointment.
God has made an appointment with you.
An appointment to be redeemed and
walk in the full rights of a son of God.
Have you kept the appointment?
Are you fully living and walking
in the rights He gave you?
Remember the time for your rights to
be a son of God have come, past tense.
You don’t have to wait any longer.
Ecclesiastes 3:11-12
“He has made
everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set
eternity in the hearts of men;
yet they cannot fathom
what God has
done from beginning to
end.”
The tapestry of time is filled with God’s beauty.
There is a longing in our hearts to see the end glory.
There is a hope of eternity in our hearts.
Something beyond our understanding
of the daily life and the grave.
Can you and I see the beauty, that when
today ends it will bring another, for all eternity.
We are now living in the endless life.
No death, if we trust in God.
Lamentations 3:25-26
“The LORD is good to
those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait
quietly for the salvation of the LORD.”
The blessing of quiet time.
It is not that God cannot handle our outbursts,
the stirrings and
verbal expressions
and commentary, and worries.
At the time we need deliverance, when
we need to be rescued and saved, can be
filled with a lot of commotion and worry.
It is good for us to put our hope in the Lord.
To seek the Lord.
It is good to have quiet waiting time where
only the voice of the Lord can be heard.
How well do we handle “waiting quietly?”
Scripture Reading
John 7:1-13 NIV
7:1 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely
staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. 2
But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, 3 Jesus' brothers said to
him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may
see the miracles you do. 4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in
secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." 5
For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
6 Therefore Jesus told them, "The
right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. 7 The world
cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. 8
You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the
right time has not yet come." 9
Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.
10 However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he
went also, not publicly, but in secret. 11 Now at the Feast the Jews were watching
for him and asking, "Where is that man?"
12 Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about
him. Some said, "He is a good man."
Others replied, "No, he deceives the people." 13
But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the Jews.
