TIMING - Today's Perspective

PERSPECTIVES FROM DAVID’S 7 SECRETS,

Chapter Two, “Sit at God’s Round Table” p. 25

TIMING

“Delay is not defeat.”  This phrase comes from the heart of my world changer friend, Thurlow Spurr (one of my mentor friends).  His other recent phrase, “Let nothing be lost,” and both have to do with ideas, projects, dreams, and goals which are important things that deal with timing.

No one in scripture dealt with delay like David.   From the beginning, there was the life changing anointing by the Prophet Samuel when David was around 17, but it took a full 20 years before he became the King of Israel.  He was 37.  True, he became the King of the southern kingdom, Judah, after 13 years when he was 30, but primarily because he and his band of raiders plundered the villages of the Philistines, the Amalekites, the Ammonites and other enemies of Israel and sent the spoils to clans throughout Judah.

But after Saul was killed, the Israeli leaders made one of David’s sons, Isbosheth, the King. For seven years there was a civil war between the north and the south before David ascended to the throne.

Delay was not defeat for David in spite of the fact that he was running for his life, making life and death decisions daily.  He waited, yes, but at the same time, always moved ahead past the close calls, past the terrible yet sometimes exhilarating experiences with their pain and pressures.  The setbacks and successes were not lost.  He gained enough wisdom to become the greatest King in Israel’s history and when it was over he could write, “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart, and wait for the Lord.” Ps. 27:14

We must not try to force our destiny.  Our calling and days are in God’s hand and His timing is the best, and the only timing we really want.

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