A neighbor of ours still has their Christmas decorations out in form Christmas lights. Traditionally, in Uganda, by 6th January, the festive decor is down even if the festive mood could still be lingering.
Just as I continued observing the flickering lights, God whispered to me saying, “Just like how those lights are overdue, many things, in people’s lives could be long overdue.”
If one has observed, the western culture folk begin decorations of festoons and wreaths immediately after Halloween, or Thanksgiving. That’s allowed, since Christmas is being expected in approximately 24 days.
Companies can advertise a conference months before. But it ceases to make sense if that company continues announcing the conference days after it has actually happened. Anyone can start announcing their birthday days before the actual day. They can continue to talk about their birthday a few days after it’s happened, or after a week. But it becomes irritating if they continue fussing about it a month later.
“I was born a month and two days ago.”
That doesn’t sound festive. Saying ‘happy belated’ isn’t that exciting anymore. Best celebrate another’s whose current than a by gone.
The above examples can only point us to the point God was trying to make to me. That there’s a time for everything, and if it comes late, it might be out of place; and no one will need its use after it’s missed its time.
A relative of mine got into a comma. The emergency ambulance was stopped as visiting states’ presidential convoys were passing by. It was delayed for close to 20 minutes. By the time it arrived, its saving chances were already used up. Though the ambulance had the equipment that would have revived my relative, it was all pointless when it arrived late.
This emphasizes the point of understanding significance of a thing or a person, ensuring that it be, or that a person avails, at the right place, at the right time. Perhaps one ought to be married at a specific time.
But, what if the day of the wedding passes by, and one of the two — either bride or groom — didn’t show up. Will it be easy pulling people back again on the day to which the function has been postponed?!
See how every minor detail in your life could be having such a very important date or timeline in which it ought to happen!
I know many friends who have failed to return to school because the time window when they were supposed to have gone back they refused to go through.
Covid came, exacerbating things that constrained their ability to see far came along too. Next thing you know, people were dreading the return for a bachelors degree on top of their diploma.
There is time indeed for everything.
The good news about this message is the allegory God uses. Even if those Christmas lights were still up, and long overdue in this side of the world’s January, it doesn’t mean they are useless. Their time will come again. The Christmas of 2023 will be here in 10 months, and the time for the Christmas decoration will be back again.
This is to say that you’d have missed a time for something. But God in His infinite grace and mercy, wants you to know that He can bring back that time again. He can allocate you a second chance. A third chance or a fourth chance. Take heart. Time and chance happens to everyone. And God holds time and seasons in His hand.
When He said He has great plans to prosper you and not to bring you disaster, you’d have botched one of the plans, but note that it wasn’t just a plan (singular) but plans (plural). Thus, the creating of that appointment for your next opportunity and chance—the next plan, through another upcoming time.
If there’s a time for everything: if there’s a time for botching it, then surely there must be a time to restore all the time that the cankerworms and locusts ate.
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Ecclesiastes 3:1 There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:
Joel 2:25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm— my great army that I sent among you.
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