As we look at the birth of Christ, take a moment, maybe several minutes, and reflect on how God appointed the right time. Now is your time here on this earth, not a hundred years ago and not a hundred in the future. The lives that touch your life for the Lord were not here decades ago. The resources enhancing your life were unavailable in a previous time. The medication you take was only available recently. The mode of transportation that you use to make your life easier and faster wasn’t here either. Your access to the gospel may not have happened. Twenty years ago, the person who shared the Word of God couldn’t cross your path. The job you do wasn’t around back in the day. The books you read didn’t exist either.
God has you here and now for a particular reason. Your timing is now—it’s the right time for events in your life. Look around, take a good look, take a long look. Can you see why you are here now? Maybe you can, perhaps you can’t. Rest assured: God makes no mistakes. This is your time; the events in your life are no surprise to the Almighty.
Mordecai said it best to Esther thousands of years ago. “Yet who knows whether you have come to the Kingdom… for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:34 NKJV). God has a way of arranging our existence, place, and timing for all things to work out for His good and many times for our good. We’re just a piece of life’s puzzle.
The problem is that we aren’t in agreement with God. Consequently, we wander through life trying to figure out what’s missing. When we allow God to direct our lives, everything works out for His glory.
