Time

Time. It's definitely been a thought on my mind a lot lately. It seems that whenever I get stuck on a thought these days, I dive into my Bible to find out everything I can about it. So I dove in and with Albert's help searched out verses relating to God's timing. They relate to time as God sees it, God's timing in things to come and God's timing in when He returns again.These verses give me confidence that God does have timing under control. It's definitely something I struggle with. Always wanting my own timing, I want things to happen now, now would nice, yes indeed. I have my own timing that I would like to see happen.  However, I don't know everything, and I would never get everything right. I don't know the future, or my future (here on earth)... I don't know what is coming down the road.
I was in a bit of a funk for the past week and everything was weighing heavily. I met with a friend this week and we had a good long talk...I don't think we stopped talking the entire day. As I got in my car to leave, I felt that cloud disappear. What a wonderful feeling that was. One of the things my friend talked about was how God was refining her. That really struck home with me. I believe that is so true in my life as well. I know that God is still working on me and refining me and preparing me for what He wants me to do. I know God still has a lot of work to do on me and I have to be willing to wait till I am where He wants me to be as He brings certain things/people/events into my life. To keep seeking Him to know who He wants me to be and how I need to grow in Him. To trust His refining in my life and to be open to it. (Definitely a different perspective than the one I had a couple days ago!)
Here are some of the verses that we found. So thankful for God's true word.

Habakkuk 2:3
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.

Genesis 18:14
 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.

Genesis 21:1-5
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Galations 6:9
 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Peter 3:8-9
 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Luke 18:27
Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”

Psalm 46:10
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Psalm 90:4
A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

Psalm 37:3-7
Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this:

He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways,

when they carry out their wicked schemes.

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

Psalm 27:14
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

1 Peter 1:6-9
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Isaiah 49:8-9
This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land

and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’

John 7:6-8
Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.”

Psalm 31:14-15
But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.

Psalm 75:2
You say, “I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge with equity.

Mark 1:15
“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”

Mark 13:33
Be on guard! Be alert. You do not know when that time will come.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2
Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Titus 1:2-3
In the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,

Acts 1:6-8
Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”