If our times were in our own hand, we would have deliverance too soon. If they were in our enemy’s hand, we should have deliverance too late. But my times are in His hand, and God’s time is always best.
Everything is beautiful in its season: when the mercy is ripe, we shall have it. It is true, we are now between the hammer and the anvil, but do not cast away your confidence; God sees when the mercy will be in season. When His people are low enough and the enemy high enough, then appears the church’s Morning-Star: let God alone as to His time. “My soul waiteth for the Lord” (Psa. 130:66My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. (Psalm 130:6)). How good that God should have the timing of our mercies!
Deliverance may tarry beyond our time, but it will not tarry beyond God’s time. After a wet night of affliction comes a bright morning of the resurrection: if our lives are short, our trials cannot be long. Time is short. Though the cross be heavy, we have but a little way to carry it. The time being short, the waiting time cannot be long.
The Young Christian, Vol. 23