Just-In-Time

Consider just-in-time holiday things: higher gas prices, turkey and hen sales, airfare blackouts, football bowl games.  A real not-in-time holiday thing in this part of the country is snow!  The songwriter quite possibly could have been visiting the South when he wrote about DREAMING of a … white Christmas!

It’s no quirk that God has perfect timing; no, actually, His timing is right on cue – His Cue!  God’s supreme authority entitles Him to see the big picture of our lives, something you and I cannot.  Matthew 1  gives us a brief insight into Joseph’s dilemma: he’s engaged to a young lady whom he learns is pregnant!  What should he do?  According to Jewish law, he can legally “divorce” her but Matthew writes that Joseph was a “just man” who didn’t want to make Mary or the matter a public scandal. Then … the just-in-time thing occurs! “But while he thought on these things behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying, Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife.” (1:20-24)  Aha!  A just-in-time answer!  Don’t you love ‘em: money’s tight and you get a rebate check in the mail, your arms are full and someone opens the door,  you’re low on hope and a friend reaches out, another rainy day yields a beautiful rainbow.  God’s not the author of our what-to-do’s.  He authors answers -- He IS The Answer,  and His answers are always … just-in-time.