The proper time

"When I choose the proper time, I will judge uprightly. - Psalm 75v2

In my lifetime there have been a number of date setters who have told us that Jesus was going to come back on a certain day or time or season. They have used all kinds of convoluted logic to name any number of people as the Anti-Christ. It seemed much worse back in the 70s-80s, but it still goes on today.

I was amazed this last weekend as Harold Camping, once again, had announced the rapture for Saturday just gone. For some reason, be it Facebook or Twitter or a lack of real news or whatever this prediction grabbed the world's attention.

I guess he figured that things just can't get any worse, so it must be time for the Lord to return.

Of course he was wrong. Saturday came and went and we are all still here and there was no world shattering earthquake.

The problem is that we want God to work in our time frame. We get impatient. We forget that He really knows best.

This psalm is God's answer to man's impatience – 'When I choose the proper time I will judge uprightly.' God will do the right thing at the right time. Always.

We have a hard time understanding that at times, but those of us who have children or grandchildren might have an advantage understanding this though.

Children are impatient. When our children were little we often had to deal with that impatience. They wanted what they wanted and they wanted it then and there. Now we have grandchildren and we have the same attitude. They don't really get it when we say 'no' or 'wait.' We know that sometimes their requests are not for the right thing. Sometimes we know that it is just not time. The difference is that we know things they don't.

The same is true with our Father. He knows things we don't. He will do what is what when the time is right. It's about time we stop trying to double guess Him.