An amazing thing happened in my time with God this morning. I started reading in James, was led to a reference in Isaiah, spent time in prayer and waited for what seemed like forever for God’s words to me. While I was sitting, trying to quiet my too busy mind, images of a painting that is just forming were insistently intruding, the echo of a song with the words Holy, Holy, Holy played in the background of my thoughts, and I kept trying to still the noise. At the beginning of any painting is the worry what if this is the one I can’t paint? Waiting impatiently this morning the thought, what if this is the morning I can’t hear God?

He let me wait. There is time. Hold fast and be with Me trusting My timing which is not how you live and experience time. To you time slows or races. With Me time is infinite. There is time. Be with me.

In reading James 1:17-18: Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. In the commentary below that it said the Bible often compares goodness with light and evil with darkness and gave 3 other passages where God is pictured as light including Isaiah 60:19-22: The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the Lord will be your everlasting light and your days of sorrow will end. Then all your people will be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor. The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the Lord; in its time I will do this swiftly.

There is a richness in being and learning from God in His patience and timing and love. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. The Lord will be your everlasting light and your days of sorrow will end…I am the Lord; in its time I will do this swiftly.

In its time…I need to stop looking at the clock and judging time by anything other than God and my time with Him…there is time…be with Him.