If we are honest, we know we all have room for improvement. Do you ever feel like you get one area of life tidied up, and another one gets messy, often due to lack of attention? A simple example is my kitchen cabinets. Sometimes, they are orderly. Other times, open at your own risk. In the spring, we often think about "spring cleaning" everything from ceiling fans to the tubs of clothes with multiple seasons and sizes taking up storage space.
It is a sweet feeling when any mess is tackled but for most of us... we have to work up the energy and block out the time. When is the time just right?
One of the things that has always fascinated me is contemplating how God decided on "just the right time" for Jesus to come, live, teach, preach, die and rise again. I am confident that He is not limited by time and space the way we are as humans. I probably cannot even begin to comprehend how it all looks from His perceptive with my self-limiting human mind.
I can only imagine how the things foretold came to fruition in just the right way and at just the right time. After all, "faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Everything happened at just the right time. "...and it came to pass" is how scripture phrases the time of Jesus's birth. In Heaven's time, I have a feeling it was just a blink before it was time for Jesus to finish his mission in human skin. All roads led to the cross, because he was here for a reason. He was to be the ultimate Passover lamb for a people that could not get it right on their own.
"When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners." -Romans 5:6-8
Did just the right time seem to come too fast? Did the "Via Dolorosa" (the "Sorrowful Way" in Latin) seem too long? Surely, it did. He prayed for the strength to endure the road ahead. As a believer, at the beginning of Holy week, is there anything more humbling?
Jesus died for us while we were still a "hot mess" in our sins. He looked beyond it. He saw our need for redemption. He knew that even with his sacrifice, most would reject him to do life their way. At just the right time, he took on the mess and made a way for us to believe, receive and find new life in Him.
Today, I am grateful for just the right time.
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