Perfect timing

 

Lord, Your timing is perfect, even when it feels painfully slow to me, even when delays frustrate me, even when I can't understand why You're waiting when action seems so obviously needed.

Perfect timing doesn't match my timeline, doesn't align with my urgency, doesn't make sense from where I stand watching the clock tick while nothing seems to be happening.

Teach me that Your timing accounts for what I can't see, coordinates details I don't know about, waits for preparations I'm unaware of, working behind scenes I'll never witness.

I want things now, You say wait, I think I'm ready, You say not yet, and the gap between my timing and Yours tests my faith, my patience, my trust in Your goodness.

Help me surrender my timeline to Yours, to stop fighting the wait, to trust that when You finally move it will be exactly the right moment even though my moment felt like it was months or years ago.

Remind me of times Your timing proved perfect in hindsight, when I saw why the delay was necessary, why earlier would have been wrong, why Your timing really was better than mine.

Give me patience to wait on Your perfect timing, faith to trust it when it conflicts with mine, peace with delays that feel anything but perfect from my limited perspective.

Let me rest today trusting Your timing is perfect, even when it doesn't feel perfect, even when I don't understand it, because You see what I don't.

In Jesus' name,

Amen.