This devotion reading just hit home for me.. home-run, in fact as I think about the timing of when to say things and when not to say things.. especially things that would rock the boat, as it were.. things that people may not like to hear.. in fact, things that I would not like to hear myself and yet they are needful.. I am thankful that God has placed people in my life; to be able to speak truth honestly and constructively with lots of love and care into my life.

And, it is a skill to be learnt and honed all the days of my life.. As it is said in the reading, we should always wait for God and not run ahead of God.. This applies in all the things that I do.. the words that I will speak and the actions that I will take.. especially in desperate times.. Think this is where I am reminded of what King Solomon asked of the Lord.. for Wisdom of God instead of anything else.. Wisdom of the Lord. 

Saturday, March 2nd

Here's Today's Devotional from The Vine...

The Lord's Time

Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." - John 2:4

He meant that His time for beginning to work miracles had not yet come. With all divine power slumbering in His hands, He would do nothing at any bidding but His Father's. Even His human mother's request He could not in this matter regard.

One thought here is our Lord's perfect devotion to His Father's will. We find the same all through His life. He did nothing of Himself. He took His work moment by moment from His Father's hand. He waited always for His “hour.” He had no plans of His own, but followed the Divine purpose in all His acts. All those early years at Nazareth, with omnipotence in His arm, He wrought no miracle. Even now, though appealed to by His mother whom He so deeply loved, He would not do anything even one minute before His hour came.

The practical lesson for us here is devotion to God's will. We should always wait for God. Too many of us run before we are sent. In our zeal for God's cause and kingdom we do not wait for Divine direction. We speak words out of season which, despite their earnestness and sincerity, do harm rather than good. We try to feed others with unripe fruits. We address men before they are prepared to hear, and ofttimes in words that drive them beyond our reach. We hurry out to preach when we ought ourselves to be sitting quietly at our Master's feet as learners.

The most common fault among Christians is that they are too slow in doing Christ's work and in heeding His calls; but it is a fault also to go too fast for God, to go before He sends us. With all warm love for Christ we must learn to wait for Him, to wait till our hour is come. He must prepare us for the work before we are ready to do it, and then He must prepare the work for our hand. In Christian work we need patience and self-restraint as well as zeal and earnestness.