1/30/2017 0 Comments Out of Time?![]() Despite the fact Timothy declares that I turn into a pumpkin at 11 o’clock at night, I had the joy of spending the last night of 2016 with some good friends. Our children were enjoying a new-year-sleepover with their Grandparents so I was gifted with almost the same number of hours sleep as I would normally have, and they were good hours of rest! However, the next day I still felt as though I had stayed up all night and so asked God what was going on. He used this experience to teach me more about His timing. God’s timing works in cycles. On the fourth day of creation He set the sun, moon and stars in the sky to order the times and the seasons (Gen 1:14-19). These each follow a set cycle and we use these to determine our cycles of time: days, weeks, years etc. When we move in the timing of God and follow His cycles we find that we are in rhythm with Him. If we don’t then our rhythms don’t match - just like trying to match the rhythm of a waltz to the rhythm of a marching band: although they may occasionally have common beats, they are mostly out of sync. My body had the right quantity of sleep, and the quality was good, but those hours of sleep occurred out of the normal cycle of time for my body, consequently I did not feel rested. I had disrupted the rhythm of my interaction with sleep This is what happens when we move outside of God’s timing. We may do the things God has asked of us, but when they take place outside of His cycles of time they do not achieve the intended result. This can leave us disappointed, frustrated or even create big problems for us. Of course, there is a remedy for this! In my case I needed to realign my sleep patterns and I was soon back into the rhythm. This is good news, not only because I don’t want to always look like a pumpkin, but because whenever we find ourselves operating out of God’s timing, we simply need to stop, take time to discover God’s cycle and rhythm for our lives, and move into it. When our clock ticks with the same rhythm as God’s then we know we have realigned ourselves with His timing.
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AuthorTimothy Pond, author of "The Call of Daniel - The Awakening of a Prophet," lives in an old heritage home by the ocean in Saint John, New Brunswick with his wife and five children. ArchivesCategories |