Grace Comes In God’s Timing

Ultimately it is God who provides for His will to be done in and through our lives. His plan, His purpose and His will for our lives must be seen not just for us, but we are His vessels through whom He works for His glory. The entire Book of Exodus  helps us to understand how God saves people whom He has chosen, and then He trains them to know Him and understand His commands are to make them better and useful people in this world. If we are to be useful for the purposes for which He has saved us we must first understand that God’s Ways Are Always Are Always the Wisest. His ways are predicated upon His sovereignty and His power to bring them to past despite any obstacle or circumstance that we may face. This is essential for us because we must rest our faith on this truth because we will encounter in life many situations for which we cannot always have an immediate answer or solution. Moses’ parent had no plan or solutions for the protection of their baby’s, but they had faith in their God's ability, if it was His will, to work the unpredictable and even the seemingly impossible. Knowing this and believing it allows us to let go, even if it involves that which is dearest to us, and trust the sovereign will of our almighty God and Father.

We must also rest our faith on the fact that God’s timing is also an important part of God’s will. God promises to His people grace to help us in time of need, (Hebrews 4:16), but His times and timing are always under His sovereign control. God heard the cries of His people and He hears our cries and prayers also, but His timing in our lives are often only a part of a bigger plan that requires His working with others He plans to use to help us. Moses was kept, protected and prepared so that in God’s timing he could be the servant whom God would use to be an answer of His grace in the lives of His people. Whom He wills, how He wills, and when He wills is always under the authority of His sovereignty. Moses needed time to grow, time to fail and time to run before it was God’s timing to raise him up to be used by God.

The last wonderful truth for us from this passage is the God’s Grace Is Greater Than Any of Our Failures. God can use us and grow us despite our failures and sins. God’s will for Moses life was bigger than Moses’ sin. This in no way means that God condones any of our sin, but it does show that even our failures in life do not stop the sovereign purposes of God that involve our lives. God knows where we are, and what we are feeling. He knows every sin and every failure. He also knows every shortcoming, weakness and insecurity and yet His plan for each of us is and never will be dependent upon our perfections, but in spite of them.

Prayer: Almighty God,  Your ways are so beyond our understanding at times and yet we can trust you for what we can and can’t see. You are the God who needs no one and yet You have chosen to invite us into Your will and invest grace to a people that don’t deserve it. Thank You in Jesus Name, amen.
By Pastor Wayne Cockrell