Bible Verses About God's Timing
Scripture on the appointed time — a season for everything, and beauty made in due time.
God is never early and never late, though he is rarely on our schedule. Scripture teaches that he makes things beautiful in their time and keeps his appointments precisely. These verses are for the wait between the promise and the answer.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
The vision is yet for an appointed time... though it tarry, wait for it.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Wait on the LORD... and he shall strengthen thine heart.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
One day is with the Lord as a thousand years.
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
My times are in thy hand.
Your times are in his hand, and he keeps every appointment. What feels like delay is often preparation. Wait on the Lord — he will make it beautiful in his time, not a moment too soon or too late.
