Divine Appointments

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     John 17:1 says, “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:”

     Many of us here in America and I assume in other parts of the world, are plagued with appointments.  You sometimes get the little business size card with your next appointment on it for the dentist, the eye doctor, the cardiologist, the primary care physician, and whatever else type of doctor you are seeing plust appointments for various businesses throughout your wee, month and even year.  Then there are those “appointments t hat are verbal, such as, I’ll be there in 30 minutes or an hour or at such and such a time.  Every Tuesday and Friday, I have a 9:30 appointment for a shower only to find that I rarely have it at that time due to one thing or another.  In my case now, it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference.  What else do I have to do other than my topical wound therapy t hat takes 90 minutes, make my meals, practice my saxophone, prepare for Sunday’s message and write a daily devotion?  I guess i do have a busy schedule even at 84 years of age.   We also find that there are those that continually miss the appointment which is aggravating to say the least.

     The Lord Jesus Christ had an appointment.  We often find references where in the beginning of the gospels, Jesus would say, “Mine hour is not yet come.” such as with the wedding feast in John two. There was no rushing it by saying, “Well, let's get to Jerusalem and get this over with.”  Every moment  and every detail was exactly according to prophecy and would not be rushed nor delayed.  The triumphal entry into Jerusalem can be calculated to the very day as Sir Robert Anderson did in his book, “The Coming Prince.”  When we look at the beginning of the “Lord’s Prayer” as seen in John 17, we see the phrase, “...the hour is come;...”  It  was not a minute early nor a minute late.  It  was righ t on time.  I firmly believe that there are no accidents with the Lord even in the area of time.  We arrive and depart  at certain times and all of those are in God’s plan for our lives.  I was traveling down a road in Roanoke one day when a traffic light stopped me which was a “trip” light only there was no car on that road and I waited and wondered, “What or who tripped the light?”  The light  went through it s cycle and I went on my way, perhaps I had missed being at a certain point at a certain time to my advantage but I never knew about it or saw it because God had delayed my progress for one minute.    You may have a divine appointment today.  In fact, most of us do. Take advantage of each appointment that god has in store for you today.  Praise God today for His working in our lives.