Christmas at the Movies: Week 4, Day 5

Isaiah 55:8-9 | Micah 5:2 | Matthew 2:6

God's thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are God's ways our
ways. Our sense of time is shaped by the brevity of human life in
general and the shortness of our own lives in particular, we are
"flowers quickly fading." Our perspectives are a limited product
of our time and geography and generation, of race and language
and gender and socioeconomics and family psychology. Our
understanding is impacted by our address and our sensibility. God
has a universal and eternal perspective. He sees yesterday, today
and tomorrow with perfect clarity and every thought in every
heart is transparent to him. He is working his saving purposes
out, amid the confusion and tragedy of human life, and
retrospectively we can see his timing.

Mary and Joseph may have thought the timing of their first born's
arrival to be awful, since they were away from home and family
on a crazy errand from the Emperor—that everyone was to be
enrolled. But this meant that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and
the ancient words of Micah the prophet about the Savior's birth
came true. The planetary movements of a star, precisely working
to bring astrologers from the east to that tiny city at the precise moment birth pangs gave way to joy. God's timing is better than ours.

When have you seen the wonder of God's timing in your life?

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