God's time
It is undoubted and an unobjectionable truth that God's time is perfect. But this expression has become a double-edged sword used by the same enemy of Salvation to distract many from the right path. Of the way, the truth and the life. Why do we say this?
As, we have heard repeatedly, as people before any eventuality in their daily lives. Where they need to make the effort necessary to resolve an important issue, they answer happily. Oh, I do not worry about that, "God's time is perfect."
If the young sheepherder David, had folded to the pessimism, fear and conformism of King Saul and his army. If he had adopted the criteria used by many to say that God would act at the precise moment because "God's time is perfect" and not do what he did immediately, the giant Goliath and the Philistines would have surely given him tremendous defeat .
On the other hand, if Nehemiah and the people of God, when they decided to return to Jerusalem to restore the city wall, would have reasoned like that, and had not advocated hard work, with faith and decidedly, God would never have given him the victory . If they had said, no! we're going to wait! "The time of God is perfect", the enemies would have destroyed them and prevented the reconstruction that God expected from their leader and his people. They made a decision and the actions were taken simultaneously.
"For they that builded, every one had his sword girded about his loins, and so they builded; and the one who played the trumpet was next to me. " "We, then, worked on the work; and half of them had spears from sunrise until the stars came out. " Neh. 4: 18,21. How do you like it?
These texts speak for themselves, the way the children of God have to advocate doing what they have to do. What corresponds to them
Faith without works is dead and God makes it very clear when he brings us the true stories of these leading men of his people. David and Nehemiah knew that God was with them, but in one hand they carried the tools of work and in the other the sword if they had to face the enemy. Sure, "they slept with one eye open and another closed", which shows the clarity they had of what they had to do to fulfill the task they had proposed.
If they had crossed their arms and affirmed in such conformist reasoning as "the time of God is perfect and he will work according to his holy will" they would never have achieved victory.
God does not want lazy, conformist and justifying people in their ranks. He does not want people to hide in spurious "reasonings" only to not obey his Word. He says