Beloved, our word is soon. The definition of soon is in or after a short time. Recently, I had a cataract removed from my right eye, and I expected my vision to return much sooner than it did.
The word soon is in the Bible 111 times. Wow, over 100 times, the word soon is used.
Thoughts
As I scroll through the verses in the Bible, most of the verses signify time. As soon as this happens, this will happen. For example, take the verses on the plaques. As soon as Moses told Pharaoh what would happen, it happened.
Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the Lord, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people.:” Exodus 8:29a
However, I did find a lovely verse.
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. Matthew 3:16
God, through the Holy Spirit, gives us our marching orders. What are marching orders? Those are the nudges to call your friend or text someone you haven’t thought of for a while to buy that person lunch. We hear the marching orders when we are praying. What is the Holy Spirit asking you to do?
What are you waiting to happen soon? Will you wait, trusting that God is faithful?
Update
Karen had her surgery today sooner than later. Thank you for praying for my right eye. Vision return today, later than sooner but better than before. Please continue to pray.
Prayer
Father God,
You are the alpha and the omega, the beginning, and the end. I am in awe that you give us our marching orders. That when we follow through, you enable us to do what you have given us. Please help us to choose obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit, Be with those who need healing sooner than later. Yet, I trust your timing above all else. In Jesus’s name. amen
Application
What might you need to release to God?
Are you one who procrastinates? Will you do what God is asking you to do sooner?
8 Comments
annette
May 5, 2023 at 6:42 pmtrue indeed. 🙂 FMF21
Diana
May 17, 2023 at 7:14 amThank You, Blessings Diana
Lisa Brittain
May 5, 2023 at 7:30 pmWhat a lovely post on time and timeliness. Soon is such an interesting concept because it means a fairly short period of time, but oftentimes I used it as a way to placate my impatient children.
I pray your eyesight better than new soon and very soon!
FMF #20
Diana
May 17, 2023 at 7:14 amThank you Lisa.
Andrew Budek-Schmeisser
May 11, 2023 at 8:20 amDecreased vision in an eye
is really a righteous pain,
and however hard you try
there’s no decent way to train
the other eye to take the slack
while letting the bad one see,
and it’s thus we see the lack
of monocularity.
Happened to me while ago
that I got whacked upside the head;
left eye only saw a glow
of floating specks all tinged in red,
and though it took weeks to resume
normal sight came none too soon.
Diana
May 17, 2023 at 7:13 amDear Andrew, Thank you for the encouragement. My eye is getting better. Blessings. Diana
Dawn Fanshawe
May 12, 2023 at 1:23 pmThank God your sight is improving and will make a full recovery. What a blessing to have 6 grand-children!
Diana
May 17, 2023 at 7:11 amDaily, my sight improves. God is good. Blessings Diana