For someone who transcends time, Christ was a remarkable time keeper. The perfect man of course is perfect in every realm even in the pedestrian.<\/p>\n
Perfect time keeping requires at least patience so as to avoid being early and attentiveness to avoid being late and Christ necessarily achieved perfection in both respects. Mortal man on the other hand leans to either end of the spectrum. We talk of people being ‘chalk and cheese’ to describe the vast contrasts between them. To broadly generalise, some of us are impatient because we think by planning\/getting ahead we can control our circumstances – which we can’t. Others of us procrastinate indefinitely because we lack any sense of urgency and reject the notion that time has any right over us – when it does.<\/p>\n
Christs coming into the world was not a moment early, not a moment late. That is to say he was not impatient to expedite the purposes of God nor indifferent to delay them.<\/p>\n
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son”. (Galatians 4:4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It is interesting to note that the world was ripe and ready for Christ’s arrival. Factors such as the broad spread of Greek language and culture and Romans roads created a unique platform on which the gospel could easily and quickly spread.<\/p>\n
It is particularly intriguing to see that Christ waited. He waited many years before starting out in public ministry. At 18, if we take that as the age of a adulthood, Christ was as ready as he would ever be we might think, but he waited.<\/p>\n
Christ’s timing sometimes seemed wanting as with the death of Lazarus. But time-would-tell a different story. It was perfect timing because it was Gods timing. The same could be said of Jairus’s daughter. Each event was executed in perfect sequence to The Fathers perfection and glory.<\/p>\n
Christ never procrastinated nor did he panic. He was neither apathetic or hurried.<\/p>\n
He was surely an excellent speaker – oratory requires timing.<\/p>\n
And then the moment came when it was “[their] hour and the power of darkness”. The eternal God could not transcend this if He was do the Fathers Will.<\/p>\n
Romans 5:6
\nFor when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhat a long hour that was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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