Time is something in which we are much attuned.  We look back on our life and wonder where all the time has gone.  We can not account for all of it, but we have milestones along the timeline of our life that are very meaningful.  For me those times are when I graduated from college, when I got married, when I had children, when I was ordained as a minister of the Gospel and when I finally realized what it meant to follow Christ, taking up the cross and beginning this wonderful journey from earth to glory.  

Throughout the time of the Old Testament, from Abraham through the Prophets, Christ was anticipated and expected.  As we today read through the Old Testament, we see that Christ was typified throughout.  We learn that the salvation of man through Christ is not a random act, but very well orchestrated by Father.  Father loves all people so much; He had a plan of redemption in place even before the foundation of the world was formed.  But it would not be in man’s timing.  It would be in Father’s perfect timing.  Jesus came into our world and announces that the time is fulfilled, and indeed it is fulfilled through Jesus Christ. 

Jesus fulfilled the old covenant which identified our sinfulness and He brought us a new covenant that would bring deliverance from the power of sin.  Under the old covenant the power of sin was identified, but not broken.  Under the new covenant, the power of sin has been broken through what Christ accomplished at the cross of Calvary.   And in Father’s perfect timing Jesus came into our world.  Beloved, God is and has always been in total control.

Know that you are loved,
gaj