Walking next to Jesus or close behind Him allows Him to either walk with us or to lead us. In Him, we have a guide, a friend and companion.

The path He walks on with us is a path of His purpose where His will is done . Often we stay on the path but we try to run ahead of him to get to where we’re going quicker -simply because we trust in our own abilities and timing more than in His.

We may get there quicker but it will be out of His time.

In His will but out of His time is as bad as out of His will altogether. There is a time for everything according to Ecclesiastes. A perfect time ordained by God for everything under the sun – why rush it or bring it to birth prematurely when it’s still in the process of being prepared for perfection?

It’s like picking a fruit from a tree before it’s ripe and then arguing that it’s still the same fruit and should therefore taste the same regardless of when it’s picked.

As kids, we used to collect silkworms and keep them in a box until they wove a cocoon. We would even cut out cardboard shapes and get them to spin their silk on the shape we had cut out. After the cocoon was complete the wait began for the moths to break through. I was often tempted to cut open a cocoon to see what was happening on the inside. Doing that would have brought the whole beautiful process of metamorphosis to a quick end because it was prematurely opened.

God grows opportunities like flowers or fruit . They mature and ripen in a season determined by Him.

Don’t rush ahead and try to make things happen when you want them to happen- you might just lose out on the sweet pleasure of a gift that is being prepared to bless you incredibly and exchange it for a sour unripened object that is disappointing and immature .

Allow yourself to walk at His pace and you might even find that the journey is a beautiful as the destination while you’re being ripened, matured and made ready to receive that which He has for you.

“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up. A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away. A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away. A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭8‬, ‭11‬ ‭NLT‬‬