\\u201cMy times are in your hand\\u2026\\u201d<\\/h3>\\n My son is visiting me right now for a set time. I\\u2019m enjoying every moment. However, the clock is ticking. As a Father I understand the swiftness of time and know the days until I will once again be without him. Every moment is a priceless commodity.<\\/p>\\n Perhaps our Heavenly Father holds our lives and our times in His hands with the same joy that I have as I treasure each moment with my son.<\\/p>\\n He cherishes and knows our times.<\\/p>\\n Although I tend to understand what the Psalmist says, I have difficulty with another category of times.<\\/p>\\n There are times when hopes and promises will be fulfilled.<\\/p>\\n

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Time is probably my most precious commodity.<\/p>\n

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I think I have my mind wrapped around the concept of lifespan, and so does the Psalmist.<\/p>\n

My times are in your hand;
\n<\/span>deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.
\n<\/span><\/span>Psalm 31.15<\/p>\n

\u201cMy times are in your hand\u2026\u201d<\/h3>\n My son is visiting me right now for a set time. I\u2019m enjoying every moment. However, the clock is ticking. As a Father I understand the swiftness of time and know the days until I will once again be without him. Every moment is a priceless commodity.<\/p>\n Perhaps our Heavenly Father holds our lives and our times in His hands with the same joy that I have as I treasure each moment with my son.<\/p>\n He cherishes and knows our times.<\/p>\n Although I tend to understand what the Psalmist says, I have difficulty with another category of times.<\/p>\n There are times when hopes and promises will be fulfilled.<\/p>\n

Expectation will become realization.<\/h3>\n He replied, \u2018It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. \nActs 1.7<\/p>\n Jesus says these types of times are in the Father\u2019s hands as well.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s the rub isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n We know there is good yet to come, perhaps healing or deliverance. Maybe it is a promise to be fulfilled.<\/p>\n There are things I have been waiting on for 8 months now. There are hopes I have been waiting on for decades.<\/p>\n I would like to know the times, and at times I have been given clues to the timing.<\/p>\n But now I wait eagerly, just like the Disciples. Jesus redirected the Disciples. Apparently, they had asked the wrong question.<\/p>\n They were asking about the completion of the times.<\/p>\n

Jesus spoke to them about the beginning of a new time, a new era in the Holy Ghost.<\/h3>\n And so it is often for us.<\/p>\n Is this the time for God to bring things to fruition?<\/p>\n Or is this the time for our Father to launch something completely new?<\/p>\n