Their Clock is Too Fast

John 7:6
Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.”

You have to be careful trying to keep appointments going off of somebody else clock. Somebody might be having you leave prematurely because their clock is too fast. Malcolm X once said, ‘Never trust a man who doesn’t wear a watch.” You need to know what time it is in your own life. People will have you out there and it’s not even your time …it’s theirs.

Jesus’ brothers wanted him to go up to a feast in Judea to campaign or show some more miracles so people would be convinced that he was the Messiah. John writes that the real reason they wanted him to show up to the feast was that his own brothers didn’t believe he was the Messiah. Familiarity breeds contempt. The more people know you the less they know you. Sometimes people are too close to you to see God’s purpose on your life. You can’t let people thrust you into the front when it’s not your time.

Jesus told his brothers it’s not my time (to show them who I am) but your time is always. For people who are not connected anytime is the right time. But when you are connected to God there is a time for everything:

Ecclesiastes 3:2-4 (New International Version)
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

When Jesus went up secretly to teach in the temple, He taught with such authority the old establishment wanted to kill him but they couldn’t because it wasn’t his time.

1. Don’t let others pressure you into something you know you’re not ready for.
2. Go through the process before moving to the promise. Each of us have to go through the proper steps before we can get to where we are going.
3. Set your watch to God’s time. God’s timetable is different from your peers. The only way to set your watch to God’s watch is that you must be in conversation with the father through prayer.
4. Wait on the Lord. He may not come when you want him but he’s always on time.
5. Quit watching the clock. Time always goes slower when you are sitting around watching the clock. When you are being productive time goes by faster.
6. Your time is not God’s time. You can’t hurry God. A thousand years for God is like one day. So if you do your math Jesus has only been gone 2 ½ days.
7. Make the most of your time. We are living in the last and evil days, time is winding up. We need to work while it's day for when night comes no man will be able to come.

Dear God, thank you for being an on time God. Help me to set my watch to your clock. I will not be anxious for nothing. Keep me in the path of righteousness and keep me on schedule. Thank you for giving me an internal sense of being on time and arriving at my destination. You are an on time God!

In Jesus Name,

Amen