A Glimpses of Wonder Entry

Time is weird.

We chase it. We waste it. We try to kill it. (Which sounds a bit aggressive, but okay.)

We say things like “I’ll be there in five,” even though “five” is flexible, “there” is abstract, and we haven’t even left the house.

But then something finally happens—and out it comes:

“It’s about time.”

Three little words. But listen closely, and you’ll hear the ache behind them:

The sigh of someone who’s been waiting. The simmer of frustration that things took too long. The unspoken belief that there’s a right time for things—and that this wasn’t it.

But who decided the timing was off?

Us?

We, who forget what day it is?

Who snooze alarms, skip clocks, and still don’t understand why February has 28.

We talk about being “on time” like we’re the ones with the master key to the universe.

Meanwhile, Jehovah isn’t checking the clock.

He created time. Not the way we do—jotting down schedules or syncing calendars.

No, he created the very framework where events unfold. Genesis tells us there was “evening and morning,” not to define when time began, but to show us that time was already in motion—because Jehovah had willed it so.

And he isn’t bound by it.

Psalm 90:2 tells us: “From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.”

He doesn’t rush. He doesn’t stall. He isn’t late.

When he says there’s “an appointed time,” it’s not an estimate.

It’s a promise.

We, on the other hand, are still trying to show up to a 3:00 appointment at 3:07 and calling it close enough. “Be there in five” means ten. “Just around the corner” means nothing. But we still get frustrated when others are late—as if our timing was flawless.

So maybe when we say “It’s about time,” we’re not making a statement.

We’re making a confession.

We feel powerless in waiting.

We struggle to trust that there’s purpose in the pause.

And yet—Jehovah never misses a moment.

Not everything that happens in life is divinely timed.

Sometimes it’s just life—messy, imperfect, unpredictable.

But when Jehovah is behind it—when he fulfills a promise, answers a prayer, or opens a door—it’s never by accident. It’s never early. Never late.

And when he does…

We don’t need to control time.

We can simply be grateful that he does what is right—when it’s right.

Because in the grand scheme of things, it always was.

And as for what lies ahead—paradise, peace, resurrection, restoration?

It’s not a matter of if.

It’s just a matter of time.