His Time Is Not My Time

So I know I talk about Ecclesiastes 3:11 a lot on this blog. This partly may be because its name is derived from that verse! And also because this verse is my life verse. I have found myself repeating it to myself so many times when I'm at the end of my rope, or can no longer see what God is doing in my life or where He's leading me (which, if I'm honest, is often. God is always a million steps ahead of me). This past semester I've found myself clinging to the promise He makes in this verse even more so, especially because I no longer have any idea where I'm going or what I'm doing with my life next. It took awhile for this to sink in, but I've finally realized that the Lord can make the promise that all things will be made beautiful in time because He is outside of our time! It was a total head-knowledge-becomes-heart-knowledge moment for me. God is outside of our time. And even more than that, He is not a linear God. I've noticed that our society attempts to define time in a linear sense. We believe that once a lesson is learned, a season is completed, a goal accomplished, it is finished. In actuality, God is a circular God. Just a glance around at His creation shows that. The seasons continue on and on. Plants die and come back to life only to die again. The sun and moon circle around the earth. In my own life, I've noticed that my walk with the Lord does not continue on in a straight line, but rather I go deeper and deeper in Him. I've found myself several times asking God why I'm being brought right back to certain lessons that I thought I had already learned. Over and over, I keep hearing "I am a circular God. My time is not your time, yet I make everything beautiful in its time." I'm being brought to a place where I get to lean on the Lord and claim His promises and know that they are made new every day. His time is not my time, and the more I look back over my life, the more I thank Him that He is in complete control and that He does indeed make everything beautiful in His time.