Time Management

2 Pet. 3:8  But beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day.

Successful, productive people almost always practice effective time management.  They make the most of every minute squeezing a sometimes seemingly infinite number of tasks into a finite amount of time.  They have to manage their time because they are constrained by it.  Also, the things they do and the decisions they make need to be timely.  The timing is every bit as important as the task or the decision.  Timing truly is everything.

God however, and as we see here, is not bound by the constraints of time.  Time does not limit or control Him.  He controls it.  He functions in and from the boundless, immeasurable realm of eternity.  From our human perspective of time, He can work quickly or He can be long suffering and move slowly.  But with God the issue is never about getting things done in a certain amount of time.  It is about getting them done at exactly the right time.  In due season.  In the fullness of time.  Not according to any human deadline.  God is usually never early according to our schedule but never late according to His.

When we look expectantly in faith, trusting God to help us in times of trouble or suffering, we must understand that although a single day may seem like a thousand years to us under these circumstances, God will always deliver us at exactly the right time.  Not a minute before or a minute after.  Now that's time management!


Sock Monkey Snippet:  God will always deliver us at exactly the right time.