![]() So too, in the New Testament, God’s angel delivers Peter at the 12 th hour (Acts 12:1). Think of His timing in the lives of Joseph, or Ruth and Naomi, or David, or Daniel. He keeps back answers to prayer until the precise moment they are needed He reserves blessings for days when His grace will meet us in weakness. He has remarkable ways of synchronising the various strands in His providence. What is true in redemptive history is also true in the individual lives of God’s children. 2:6), when Christ is ready to utterly defeat him. In the future, the sovereignty of God’s timing will once again be made obvious, for the man of sin will stand revealed only “at the proper time” (2 Thess. ![]() When it did come, God’s perfect timing enabled His “weakness” to overcome the “strength” of evil. Hence the refrain that punctuates John’s Gospel, that our Lord’s “time” or “hour” had not yet come. Like so many other divine perfections, it is in the life of Jesus that the accuracy of the divine timing is most evident. 4:4) “At just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly” (Rom. ![]() ![]() What divine behaviours at first sight appear to be slow, or even late, are in fact right on time: “When the time had fully come, God sent his Son” (Gal. Having hands, or feet, or club in the right place at the right time makes up for numerous other weaknesses. In golf, as in most ball games, “timing” is more important than size or strength. What had gone wrong? Basically, what sportsmen refer to as their “timing”. Twenty years ago I was competent enough to play on my university team today I sprayed balls to left and right of the target, only accidentally hitting an occasional “dream shot”. Spring came today, and I ventured out to the local driving range to hit my first golf shots of the year. ![]()
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