Today I read these words “If God is never late, then I can wait!”

What a timely reminder! The final member of our family has succumbed to Covid, he’s been having symptoms since Sunday, got worse yesterday and tested positive. Please pray for him.

And it means yet another delay, and our third time to change the ferry, but if God is never late, then I can wait.

We like to be in control, but we have to trust that actually God is. He never misses out, never messes up, is never anxious and has no uncertainty. How wonderful that we can trust Him. As the 19th Century preacher so helpfully puts it:

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. (Spurgeon)

We like to have life neatly arranged and our plans set out and followed, and we tend to view interruptions as a pain to our real life, but what if ‘the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.’ (C S Lewes)

We can have peace because we know God is in control and working even the interruptions for our good (Romans 8:28). And what is the good that God is working towards for His people? It’s not us completing our to-do list, or bucket list, but it’s making us more like Jesus (Romans 8:29). God can do that even when we’re stuck in isolation and things don’t go our way! Maybe He’s teaching us to trust Him when things don’t go our way. He’s still in control.

So, “If God is never late, then I can wait!”

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