When It's Time

There is always a set time to favor Zion. It may not be as early as we desire. It may not come at the time we look for it. That time set by God’s infinite wisdom and goodness may be deferred until our impatience has given up every hope and expectation of it. Nevertheless, “it will surely come; it will not tarry.”

We are like impatient children, always anxious to pick fruit before it is ripe. But God is never in a hurry. He is never ahead of time and never behind time, but always right on time. He waits until the mercy he intends to bestow is fully prepared, and until he has fully prepared our souls to receive the mercy prepared for us. And when the mercy prepared has been received it is dearer than words can express to our souls because we are made to know that the Lord our God appointed it for us from everlasting. — “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.”