Orange Moon Thursday, June 11, 2026 "Just Long Enough"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe

“Just Long Enough”

   “As for God, His way is perfect” (II Samuel 22:31).

   “My times are in Thy hands” (Psalm 31:15).

     Of all God’s perfect ways, His timing can be among the most challenging to comprehend and process.  The eternal perspective that guides His working often conflicts with our limited understanding.  “How long?” asked the Psalmist on numerous occasions regarding God’s working in ways far beyond our understanding and “past finding out” (Psalm 6:3; Romans 11:33).  

    Our Heavenly Father can, of course, be trusted completely regarding our times.  No one who waits on Him will ever be confounded (I Peter 2:6).  We will all be tempted at times to our own wondering of “How long?” as the perfection of God’s working greatly challenges our perceptions.  Ultimately, we will see that what seemed to be His delays were never that at all.  He rather works in all things according to “the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Ephesians 3:11).  Guided by infinite understanding, and even more, by “the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, God’s ways will one day be seen far more clearly by His people as perfectly performed, and yes, as perfectly scheduled.  “Trust in Him at all times” (Psalm 147:5; Ephesians 3:19; Psalm 62:8).

    This assurance does not preclude the challenge we all face regarding our Lord’s present working in our lives.  Even as we plant the truth of “My times are in Thy hands” deeply within our hearts, we will be tempted to wonder and even to chafe as our Father works according to His eternal perspective.  “Lord, how long?”  Just long enough will be the answer regarding all of God’s ways in the world and in our lives.  This we can believe because it is true, and because every moment in this life and forevermore flows with the current of “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

“Our Lord Jesus Christ, which in His times He shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.”

(I Timothy 6:14-16)

Weekly Memory Verse

      Great is our Lord, and of great power.  His understanding is infinite.

(Psalm 147:5)

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