God’s Timing in Context 2

And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. (1Kings 19: 15, 16)

Still on God’s assignment being the manager of His timing.

Let us look at a few scriptural examples.

In the verses above, we have Elijah ready to go (die) as he is convinced there was nothing left for him to do.

But what does God say?

You are still on assignment.

He also shows him how he was to finish it.

But do you realise that the first parts were not his to do? Or at least we know he is not the one who performed them?

In short, God just ordered him to appoint a successor whose assignment would be to complete his.

God’s assignments are too big for one person to complete, many times because of the time required and the massive reach of the same.

And he was not alone.

Remember we mentioned David in our last post?

The same thing happens to David, only that this time it is the opposite of this.

David desires to build a temple for God.

This of course pleases God.

But that was outside of his assignment and for that desire God promises him things.

But God tells him that the assignment, though coming from a heart in the right place, is outside his assignment.

He therefore gives him another assignment, preparing the person to carry out that assignment.

It was the same with Moses.

Jonah was stopped from his pity party because he needed a lesson to be able to continue in his assignment.

The saddest for me, however, happened with Hezekiah.

He completes his assignment at 39 after ruling for fourteen years and God tells him so.

But he protests, probably because he felt that he was too young and especially because he had no son to take over from him. God therefore adds him fifteen years, and a son outside his completed assignment.

Do you realise that absolutely nothing positive came out of those fifteen years and that that son was the reason Judah went to captivity?

Ahithophel committed suicide because he probably realized that he had messed his assignment big time, as did Judas.

In short, your assignment is the reason God placed you on earth. Living outside it, however good any other assignment may appear, is a complete waste in God’s sight.

I like what Jesus repeatedly said; that My time is not yet, then, the hour is come, until He finally said, it is finished.

Is it possible to live with that kind of focus?

Yet can we do that if we are unaware of our assignment?