Seize the Moments - Vol 1  Day 6  Right Ministry - Right Timing

In retrospect, I can see time and again in my life, and time and again in the lives of many around me, the tendency to get a bit of vision from God, a glimpse of the ministry we feel he has in mind, but then taking the baton from his hand and charging ahead full speed, frantically in a hurry to get it done.  As that happens God just steps back and waves good bye as we proceed down that path toward ministry at our own pace and in our own way. 

God cannot be glorified in any way when that glory would be shared with another.  So unless we overcome the tendency to run ahead of God, we will be disappointed and disillusioned as time after time the vision dies an unnatural death.  And interestingly enough that unnatural death is caused by the infliction of a fatal wound from my own sword of pride.  So as the vision comes in, the delight begins to rise, wait for God.  Not only is His vision perfectly clear but also His timing will produce the greatest work.  Our timing, every time, will reduce if not eliminate the  purpose of God in the plan.

      -- JB    ref.   John 11:1-14