Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Ephesians chapter 1 verses 8b through 10:
With all wisdom and insight 9he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
“In the fullness of time.”
I love that phrase. It reminds me that things can’t be rushed or hastened too much. They have to be given their own time.
In the Bible there are two words for time. One is “chronos”. This is chronological or clock time. It’s predicable and routine. Tomorrow follows today. We know when it will happen.
But the Lesson today uses another word for time - “kairos”. This is hidden time. Unknown and unrevealed time. This is the time we know not of. It is “the fullness of time”. When God gets ready.
In the fullness of time a rose blossoms, a couple conceives, an adolescent girl discovers her gift for singing, a prodigal Son comes home, a world comes of age, and what God had been orchestrating all along is finally revealed.
We are not to know the times or the seasons. But what we do is that God is at work. We wait, we watch, we trust, and we pray.
And in the fullness of God a star appears . . .
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