“When The Time Fully Comes…!”

“When The Time Fully Comes…!”(Gal.4:4-7).
We are blessed to see the light of another day. We thank God for his mercy.
Project realisation depends on deadlines and timeframe. When we monitor projects we focus on deadline and timeframe. Of course, even farmers have anticipated deadlines for harvesting because each kind of crop has a timeframe within which it gets ready for harvest.
Deadlines and timeframes depend on chronological time. But the most essential time is kairos time. When we say God’s time is the best, we are in effect saying that it is good to depend on God’s time. God’s time is kairos time – the right time. The farmer knows how long a particular crop takes before harvest time, but it does not always happen that way. We cannot explain why for instance maize that was planted on the same day does not get ready on the same day. It is simply that things happen at the right time – kairos time.
In Galatians we read, “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman…” God did not send his Son considering chronological time, like within a timeframe. He sent his Son “when the time had fully come” as in kairos time.
We are in such mad rush to meet deadlines within set timeframes, but it does not work this way with God. We have to wait on God’s time because God’s time is the right time and the right time is the best time.
That notwithstanding, as we keep insisting, waiting on God’s time does not mean spending the greater part of your 24 hour day in prayer expecting miracle money. Rather waitjng for God’s time is to spend less time in prayer, more time in meaningful engagements and expecting it to happen as the LORD pleases.
We may have been strangers to Israel’s religion; wild olive branches grafted into a cultivated olive tree(Rom.11:17ff; read all of Rom.9-11) but at the right time Christ has made us heirs by adoption. So to say, “you are no longer a slave, but a son, and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.” Hallelujah!
We are free, but freedom has its setbacks. Not long afterTsar Alexander II had freed Russian slaves, most of the slaves preferred to go back to their former masters because free as they were, they could not face life on their own. In the same way, in Christ you are no longer a slave, but know how to manage your freedom by walking in the way of the Master.
Weekend prayer: Lord Jesus Christ thank you for coming at the right time to make me an heir. Amen!
Have a blessed weekend! Peace be with you! Thank you to all those good friends who responded to yesterday’s meditation by sending us some airtime. May God replenish you abundantly!
Merry Christmas!
Rev Babila Fochang.