God Is Always On Time: Never Late, Lost, Or Damaged

 "God will provide" If it is late, then its really right on time. If it is lost, I have insurance on it and I'll get another one.." I was about to say something else and the woman on the other end of the phone said, "And if for no other reason, it was so that you could witness to me today."-customer service 

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. 

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 16:25

Truth is: God has a lot of deliveries he makes every day. God works in every person on the planet's life even if they do not follow Him. God is busy putting people, places, and things in our paths to mold and make us. He never shows up late. He never delivers broken promises, nor is He ever late. According to our standards he may not have upgraded you to FedEx Express, but He is on the way! Sit back and look at the bigger picture. If God had delivered something into your life a moment sooner, or a moment later, everything that happened that day would be different. God gives you the things you need right when He knows you need them, not when you think you do.

Recently, I ordered a 7" kids tablet from eBay for my daughter, who is coping with (HFA) high functioning autism, or some know it as  Asperger syndrome. If you have or know a child with this condition, you know all to well how things have to be on a schedule. The same things, at the same times, or all order in their lives goes amok. I really shouldn't have told her that she was going to get the tablet until it showed up at our door steps, because I would never hear the end of it until it did. Younger children, who share qualities like my daughter, have a hard time understanding things and taking them to literal. If I tell her to get her shoes on so we can go to the grocery store, she expects to leave the house right then. I know that I have to get myself ready for going out first, and not to tell her my plans until we are walking out the door. Well to my excitement, I told her about the tablet. 

Every day I checked the tracking website, and I explained to her that it was still on its way to our house. I drew a picture of an airplane with her to help her understand that it is not going to be today, or tomorrow, but maybe the next day when the package would arrive. The first of the year came, and the package was still MIA. I was patient and thought surely the holiday was holding it up. Six days later my two day priority mail was not only not at my door, but it was showing to be at the origin facility it was sent to for sorting. How could this be? If it left the facility in Ohio six days before, how could it still be on its way to Shreveport for sorting to reach it's final destination in Texas? I thought, really six days and it hasn't been scanned again. (Every time a package leaves or arrives at a facility it is scanned and tracked). By this time my, daughter had forgot about the tablet, and I tried to keep her mind off of it, and I kept her interested in other things. I called costumer service and filed a claim. They told me it could be a number of things including: Lost, Damaged, Or just Late due to weather, but that they weren't experiencing any weather delays from the place my package should have shipped from. 

At first I was frustrated. But, then God told me to be silent. I wanted to blow up over the phone and express my anger. Instead, I said, "God will provide" If it is late, then its really right on time. If it is lost, I have insurance on it and I'll get another one.." I was about to say something else and the woman on the other end of the phone said, "And if for no other reason, it was so that you could witness to me today." I stopped in my tracks and felt goose bumps. The woman told me what a terrible day she was having, many people calling in with rage that their packages haven't reached their destination because of weather, or this or that. She went on to say, "But, you understandingly, patiently, collectively, reminded me that God is in control, and he is always on time." This woman had been having her own problems, and work wasn't making it any easier. 

Who really knows why my package is late, or more than likely lost. But, God does. He uses everyday things to work for His will. If my package had arrived on time I would not have taught my daughter about patiently waiting, how some of our mail comes on planes, cars or ships. I would not have stopped to think and be appreciative of the people who work around the clock in all weather conditions to get us our mail. My lost or just simply late mail, may have caused more than just warming the heart and giving hope to a customer service agent. It may be apart of God's grand design for many people's lives.

This applies to everything in our lives. I have seen it many times in life. I can't count the number of times I have almost been in a terrible car accident. Then thinking later, if I hadn't went back in the house to check that the hair straighter was turned off, I would have been a little further down the road, and I could have been the car upside down on the side of the road. If I hadn't got caught at that red light, I might have been the car that crashed with the 18 wheeler. If I didn't get up earlier I might have been killed in an accident. It's all how you look at things. I could have thought to myself, that the hair straighter caused me to be late for work, that red light made me stuck in traffic, that alarm clock caused me to rush this morning. Be optimistic, when bad things happen to us, we might have been saved from something worse. 

If you run out of gas, or you do get in a wreck, or you are late, it is the exact place God planned for you to run out of Gas at. God may have been saving you from something more terrible ahead of you.  I remember running out of gas with no phone a few years ago. I turned onto a highway. I was coming off an old dirt road, that was not very well traveled. If I had run out of gas a few miles back, no one may have known for hours. God had me in the right place at the right time. Someone did stop and they had a phone. It's the little things that we don't think about. We think God is late, or he hasn't heard our cries. But, He has, and He is coming, and He will get to you on time!

My package will eventually get to me, but until it does, I know God is in control and he has a plan.

Truth is: Whatever the case, God is always on time, even when our mail isn't. :)

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. 

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 16:25