Thoughts on Christ and His Word

 God has a time for everything.  Although He lives outside of time, in this world He created, He has a time for everything according to His purposes. In speaking about the destruction of Babylon God said: "That country has many rivers and rich treasures, but i ts time is up , and its thread of life is cut." Jeremiah 51:13 GNTD God has a time-frame for our life that we will not surpass.  We get to choose to cooperate with God and his will for our life or not.  But we don't get to violate the time he decreed for us.  Let us use our time wisely fulfilling God's purpose for us so that we may be rewarded richly in Heaven where our time will never run out.

Henry Blackaby shares great insight into the reason God moved the Israelites into the Promise Land the way He did: "God’s primary concern was not giving His people land; it was developing a relationship. On Mount Sinai, God said, “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself” (Ex. 19:4). The promised land was simply the means God used to establish a unique relationship of trust and obedience with His people". Many times God leads us to great things but only by taking us through a route of trials and tribulations.  The faith and character we learn through these is what God uses to make us more like Christ.