God's Timing is Perfect!

I am so proud of my husband! Click here to hear him preach. We have three services each weekend at church; the recording here is the 3rd of the three times that my hubby was blessed to be able to deliver the Word of God to the congregation. It will only take about 25 minutes to watch, or listen. I like to watch him. Maybe you will too. He's got a great teaching style and this sermon is packed with great stuff!

Greg and I met during my senior year at college in Anderson, Indiana - 1987. He was in the process of a divorce and his pregnant soon-to-be ex-wife had returned months earlier to her family and homeland of Germany. It was a tough time for him and everyone involved. In fact, I was a friend of Greg's younger sister, Jenny, who also attended the same college. Before meeting Greg, I remember her telling me about how sad she was that her brother was getting a divorce. I think she may have even asked me to pray for him! I felt bad for her, him, and their family. I had not experienced divorce in the family before. Although I had seen Greg in the computer lab at the college (one of his part time jobs), it was his sister Jenny who introduced us. The rest, as they say, is history.

My dad's deepest desire was for me to attend this Christian college where my mother had received her nursing degree many years before, and get married to a pastor (he told me those exact words). When I informed my Dad that I was engaged to a divorced computer operator and father of one, and would move to San Jose, California - well, let's just say it's not what he wanted for his daughter, and he told me so.

Jump many years into the future, 20 years later, and you can now see that my husband is an ordained pastor, working at Central Community Church as Executive Pastor, and was able to preach before the multitudes his heart's desire - the Lordship of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

What I'm trying to say? God knows the desire of our hearts (Psalm 37:4 ). We don't always get what we want when we want it. Sometimes it takes 20 years...possibly not even in our lifetime! (like Bible hero Moses who only got a glimpse of the Promised land from a distance, but was not able to enter it, even though it was the desire of his heart to do so. Deut. 3:27. God had chosen Joshua to take the people, not Moses.)

What I know is that God is never late...He's never early...He's always on time! Just like you can't rush a baby's growth in his mother's womb...and you can't cause the corn to grow any faster than the weather conditions allow...and you can't wish for the bird's egg to crack open in the nest before it's due time. God's timing is perfect. In these 20 years since Greg and I got married, we have had many, MANY life changes that only God can ordain, create, and enjoy. It took a long time for Greg and I both to be ready for Greg's ordination, and now pastoral position.

My Dad was blessed to get the desire of his heart, and to see it while he's still living. May we all be a little more patient - not getting anything too early, or too late. But right on time!