God’s appointed season Week 52,2015

Why did it take so long for Jesus to be born into this world to save us from sin? It had been centuries since the promise was made at the garden of Eden. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel." Gen 3:15 (NASU) Finally the promised messiah was born.

Could it be that God, wanting a way to save man, was trying things out different things to see what would work? Innocence had failed in the garden of Eden. Conscience failed in the time of Noah. Patriarchs were unable to do the saving act. The law was powerless to change the heart of any man. Prophets brought no transformation. Was Jesus a last resort? An afterthought in (seeming) desperation when all else failed? No. By no means. Consider this: All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast — all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world Rev 13:8 (NIV). Since the foundation of the world it had been determined the lamb would be slain for us! So it was no afterthought. And the delay was by no means reluctance on God’s part to send His son, or the son to suffer for scripture records the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and at his appointed season he brought his word to lightTit1:2-3(NIV). This was God’s appointed season; this IS God’s appointed time. A time of deep darkness, a time everything seemed to have gone upside down. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly Rom 5:6 (NIV).

All those events were really filling the gap, pointing us to the one who was to come. What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith Gal 3:19, 24(NIV). All the others bear witness to Him. But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened Rom 3:21(THE MESSAGE). God is the master artist and the Lord over all things. He has always been fully in control. He was in control when creation began, He remained in control in the midst of Satan’s rebellion and mankind’s fall from grace. He will remain in control forever. What He says will happen. It will happen at the time He has set for it. Every word I've spoken to you will come true on time — God's time Lk 1:20 (THE MESSAGE).

Has God made a promise to you? Know that it must surely come to pass; it will be fulfilled. And if it appears you are increasingly helpless and things are getting worse and turning upside down just remember that things were like that to men when Jesus stepped into the fray.