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Timing Is Everything

Time is the center of our lives.

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Timing Is Everything
Morgan Philips

As humans, we revolve everything around time. Timing is everything, it has the most impact on our lives. Think about it, about the time you met your spouse, the time you met your closest friend, or maybe the time you lost someone too soon. Timing has a way of being our best friend and our enemy.

The time I met my closest friends, I know that God brought them into my life to keep me sane. “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” – Proverbs 18:24. These ladies are my rock and I thank them so much for that. The times that they were brought into my life were completely different, but equally as needed. They’ve been there for me from some of the worst times and some of the best. God knows we need people we can rely on and someone to help us through the hard times and celebrate during the good. These people are very important to have and we should all hold them close to us.

The time when you meet “the one.” This one can be the most time centered of them all. In relationships timing has to be perfect. As we get older it gets harder and harder to realize when you’ve met the one or when you’ve mistaken someone to be your one. Sometimes we get caught up searching and searching for the one that we are consumed by it and we don’t allow ourselves to be happy. When you stop searching for them yourself, God will bring them to you, his timing is better than ours and he knows when the right time is. So let go and let God.

The time you lost someone too soon. Death. Nobody wants to get a phone call or receive word that someone that care about and love has been taken away from them. Sometimes we don’t understand why God would take someone from us when they are so young, even when you lose someone like a grandparent, it is so extremely hard on the people left behind. It’s hard not to fall into that place where many people don’t come out of, the dark place that completely changes a person, but turn to God he has the answers. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” - Matthew 5:4. God knows how bad you’re hurting and he wants you to know that it will be okay.

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.” - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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