“Dear woman, that’s not our problem,” Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.” John 2:4
I am not a patient person. Unfortunately, left to my own devices, I am impulsive and quick to react. If I am being honest, sometimes I want what I want, and I want it now. Can you relate? During a time when life is moving faster than we can keep up with, and we can get many things that we want at the touch of a button, we need to learn patience and the importance of timing. Jesus understood His timing, which is why He came at just the right time and waited to begin performing miracles at just the right time.
We see in John 2 that Jesus understood the importance of timing when it came to His ministry. In this passage of Scripture, He was at a wedding. His mother and disciples were in attendance, too. At some point in the wedding celebration, the wine ran out, which was incredibly embarrassing and shameful for the party hosts. Knowing Jesus could do something about this problem, Mary alerted him to the lack of wine. His response to Mary when she gave Him this information was, “Dear woman, that’s not our problem… My time has not yet come” (verse 4). In His response to Mary, Jesus demonstrated that He understood the importance of timing. Up until this point, Jesus had not performed miracles. One of the likely reasons why Jesus had not performed miracles yet is that He knew if He rushed to perform miracles and display His power, the religious leaders would likely try to arrest and kill Him before He was able to spread His teaching and ministry. Because of that, Jesus had held off on performing miracles and displaying His power. Until now. We will talk more about the incredible miracle Jesus performed at this wedding in the following days.
From the very beginning, down to the timing of Jesus’ birth, we see that God has always operated at just the right time. The apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 4, “When the right time came, God sent His Son” (verse 4). Indeed, Jesus came at the perfect time. He came at a time when there was a common language, Greek, which would be the language for the New Testament. At the time that Jesus came, there were also Roman roads so that missionaries like Paul and others could spread the name of Jesus. Indeed, Jesus came at just the right time.
Still today, God has perfect timing. He works and moves in our lives at just the right time, even if His timing is different from what we would expect. Will you trust Him and His timing today?
Take some time now to pray. Ask God to develop in you a spirit of patience and understanding when it comes to His timing. Thank Him for sending Jesus at just the right time to rescue us. Ask Him to help you trust His good plan for your life.
Galatians 4:1-12
Think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves an inheritance for his young children, those children are not much better off than slaves until they grow up, even though they actually own everything their father had. 2 They have to obey their guardians until they reach whatever age their father set. 3 And that’s the way it was with us before Christ came. We were like children; we were slaves to the basic spiritual principles of this world.
4 But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. 5 God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. 6 And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.” 7 Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.
8 Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist. 9 So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world? 10 You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years. 11 I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing. 12 Dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to live as I do in freedom from these things, for I have become like you Gentiles—free from those laws.
You did not mistreat me when I first preached to you.
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