God is the God of Time, Beloved.
We perceive time as linear, but He sees it as whatever He wants it to be.
He can bring full-circle events and tweak unwanted scenes we think could be the most logical to happen.
When we feel like we have screwed our future because of what we have done or experienced in the past, He can make it beautiful and something far way better than how we could have seen it in its most feasible, positive way.
In God’s perspective, time is redemptive.
When we think we cannot turn back and fix things in the past, He rearranges the setting, plot, and character so that we will be able to reconcile what needs to be reconciled in the stories of our lives.
When we think we have become a prisoner of life’s “inevitables,” He intervenes to make the inevitable negotiable.
How do we make the inevitable negotiable?
It is when we choose to surrender to God. It is when we choose His sovereign will over his permissive will. Don’t confuse the former with the latter. The sovereign will of God is His good and perfect plan for us. His permissive will is the consequence that we need to go through when we choose our waywardness over His divine counsel.
The world operates in a time where the permissive will of God permeates. But we can operate under the time where His sovereign will rules over our lives, only if we surrender to God.
Choosing His sovereign will over His permissive will may cause some sacrifices, but the outcome is greater than the cost.
Why surrender?
When we choose to surrender our lives and our timelines to His, we will be able to reclaim our future, along with our dignity and divine identity. When we choose to worship Him, we give Him the right to hover over the recesses of our lives that need healing and deliverance.
When we choose to make Jesus us our Lord, we choose to let Him be the God of our time. We choose to let Him redeem our past and take back what is rightfully ours as Children of the Most High God.
When we choose to give God the pen to write our stories, we give Him the permission to be the Author of our lives, and we can trust that whatever He writes is wonderful, beyond our human capacity to make our future bright and promising.
When we choose to make God our God, we give Him the lordship of our time—our past, present, and future.
And who doesn’t want Him to be so?
For He knows the plans He has for us, plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give as a hope and future.
Jeremiah 29:11
