Perfect Timing

Perfect timing. Ever have one of those moments when you thought all hope was lost and there was no way out of your current situation?  And then all of a sudden the improbable happens, something you thought could never take place to get you out of a situation. That’s God showing up right on time.

I heard a story on the radio the other day about God showing up with perfect timing that I want to share. A military husband and wife, with a newborn baby, had just moved to a new city. Most of their important stuff was in a storage unit they had rented. The husband, on deployment in another state, called his wife to tell her that he was notified by the police that their storage unit had been broken into.

Of course, his wife was very upset and started praying on her way over to meet the police at the storage unit. When she got in the car and turned on the radio, a line from Mercy Me’s song came on saying, “Your day’s about to get better!”  She laughed and told God that it was pretty ironic that that line was on and that there was no way that her day was about to get any better. In fact, she thought her day was about to get terribly worse.

However, when she arrived at the storage unit, the police notified her that someone had cut the padlock on the unit but the way the lock was cut, they couldn’t remove it from the hole it was locked through. So even though the lock was destroyed, they were unable to open the door meaning everything was still secure in the unit. Her day had gotten better and God was just letting her know through the song on her way over. He had perfect timing.

The Bible tells us that the birth of Jesus was based upon perfect timing, “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.” - Galatians 4:4-5.

The Bible also tells us that our salvation came at the perfect time as well, “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” - Romans 5:8. God’s timing is perfect. As the Karen Peck and New River song goes, “even when He is four days late, He’s still right on time!”

Whatever it is you may be going through right now, stay faithful, God is working in His time and His timing is always right on time. A perfect God always has perfect timing.

Have a great day and God bless.