December 14.
In Due Time

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

God resists the proud. When you come to God all proud, God steps back. When you come to God with your little ideas saying, “I can handle this by myself? then God steps back and lets you handle it. But when you surrender yourself to Him and say, “Lord I’m yours and you belong to me. Even if I could handle it, things would work better if you handle it. I am coming to you with a humble spirit asking you to take care of this matter yourself Then God will exalt you in due time. You see God has a time set to lift you. We may think our time is the same time that our sister’s time is. But God doesn’t lift all of us at the same time. God has a season to bless you. When you’re doing well, it’s difficult to get yourself to church. You’ve got to decide which car you are going to drive. You must decide what you want to eat. It takes two hours to figure out which suit you will wear. Then you have to choose which car to drive. After you get to church, you have to determine from which checkbook you will write out the check. It’s hard to rush to the Lord when you have everything. Sometimes God has to take some stuff from you before you’ll show up at His door.

When we didn’t have anything, we showed up for worship. Rain or snow didn’t stop us from coming to the Lord. When we’re weary, wounded, and sad we come to Him. We are to cast our cares upon Him. The word cast means to commit. Take what I have out of my hand and place it in his hands. You see my hands are limited. My hands won’t hold that much. His hands are much larger than mine. The stuff that would run me crazy God handles with ease. We need to know he will bless us, but in due time.