HOLY GOD OUR ETERNAL FATHER is NOT limited by time. HE was before time began.
HE is, and will be "I AM WHO I AM" into eternity. (Exodus 3:14).
HE uses time to help us regulate our lives.
HE wrote down our every day - before the day of our birth. (Psalm 139: 16).
HE uses Time to PREPARE us for ETERNITY.
When we choose JESUS as our Savior and Lord (John 3:16), we choose to be with HIM forever (Psalm 23:6), choosing HIM---HE WHO chose to pay the HIGHEST Possible price for us!!!
"I AM the Way, the TRUTH, and the Life. No man comes to the Father (in heaven) except through ME". {John 14:6).
Some Personal Experiences: 1) On a certain day in May 2024 --- I had planned to drive to the White County Library, in order to have some letters copied. My plan was: First-I would go to a grocery store to get some cash - so that I could pay for the copies; then I could go the library. But.....I drove Past the grocery store.....then I had to turn around and go Back to the grocery store for cash. Then - while in the grocery store, I forgot something...so I walked back into the grocery store---then back to my car, and drove to the Library. (*Note. I am listing all of these steps..... in order to illustrate GOD'S Perfect timing!!!).
I arrived in the Library parking lot, as I started walking toward the building...then the cord by which my glasses hang around my neck... the cord fell off my glasses --- so I had to remove my glasses and carry them in my hand. From previous visits to that library, I knew that just inside the library door - there is a table at which I could sit and repair my glasses.
A minute or two after I sat down, a very young boy walked away from his Mother, and he went to the nearest bookshelf, picked up a large book.....and he brought it to me. I THANKED him for bringing the book to me. Immediately - he went back to the bookshelf, picked up another book and brought it to me. A third time, he picked up a very large, heavy book - and walked toward me. This third book was much larger, so he Struggled to carry the book--so I reached out and helped him bring the book to the table, Again, I Thanked him...then our Lord prompted me to put my hand on his hand...and I Blessed him in the NAME of JESUS CHRIST!!!
As I left the library, I spoke with the Mother of that little boy, and asked her, How old is your child? She answered, he is eighteen (18) months old, and he loves books."
Only a few days after I blessed that little boy in the library...I had another Divine Appointment.
2) First, allow me to set the background for This Divine Appointment.
For several months I had been trying to think of a way to contact a friend that I knew before I retired.
Sara is a dear friend/Sister in JESUS CHRIST. I enjoyed the Privilege of working with her for several years! As I said (above)- I had no way to contact Sara - (no phone number, no mailing address).
On a certain day, I had an appointment with a doctor in Gainesville, Ga. My wife Mary went with me to the doctor's office. At the doctor's office, first, there is a large waiting area - where your insurance is processed etc. Next, you are sent to a smaller waiting room...this is an area where patients wait their turn to be processed before leaving the building. (*Again, all these details are to illustrate GOD'S Timing). As Mary and I waited our turn to be "processed out".....MARY heard a nurse call out the name of the next person (to consult the same Doctor that I had seen)...Mary whispered to me "Sara is the next person coming in here"!!!
HALLELUJAH!!! Immediately I stood up at the door and greeted SARA!!! Because the doctor was waiting for Sara---we did not have much time to talk. So I got one of my business cards from our car, wrote my text/phone number on the back of it, and asked the nurse to give it to Sara. A few days later, Sara texted me, so now we can share prayer requests, and maintain contact. *** Even more personal experience/proof that it was ONLY GOD'S Perfect timing---my original appointment with this Dr.---had been RE-scheduled to this date!!!
So, in GOD'S Perfect timing HE had me there for that Little boy at the Library!!! GOD used a few minutes of my time---plus HIS answers to my Ongoing prayers---to change the eternity of that little boy!!! And the same for others Whom HE will touch through that little boy!!!
Some great Truths I have learned as I study HIS WORD: -"Bring our thoughts captive to Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5). -He knows our thoughts before we think them, and our words before we speak them (Psalm 139:1-6). -The Holy Spirit will "guide you into all truth". (John 16:13).
YOU: ask JESUS to save you from your sins. -Ask JESUS to fill you with the HOLY Spirit. -HE has "good plans for you to give to you a future and hope". 29:11). -Submit to Him so He will do things through you beyond what you would dare ask. (Ephesians 3:20). -Read His Word (the Bible) regularly. You can read through the Bible in one year (30-40 minutes/Day. Get your own reading plan-at www.LogosTradingPost.com.
"BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF MERCIES, AND GOD OF ALL COMFORT, CONSOLATION, AND ENCOURAGEMENT." (2 Cor. 1:3). "JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER." (Hebrews 13:8).
