Article September 3, 1979 Issue

God's "timing" is perfect

MARGARET JESSIE JACOBS

It is often needful to arrange schedules and make plans. However, we should be ready to relinquish even the most cherished plans if called upon to do so and if acting in obedience to God.

In learning more of the nature of God through Christian Science, and consequently of ourselves as His beloved children, we begin to see the difference between activity based on human will and activity motivated by the divine will, which provides the only satisfying basis for shaping our lives. Paul reminds us, "Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is."^{Eph. 5:17;} God's will is for us to know and understand Him as Spirit, acknowledge Him as the only power, the only cause, and to recognize that we are inseparable from Him.

In a sense His "will" is the same as His "timing." What appears to us as good timing, as an orderly unfoldment of events, is the inevitable result of our yielding to His will, which is always good. As we deny suggestions of self-will, lack of ability, lack of courage, separateness from good, we are submitting ourselves to the good of God's order. This order is divine law; it is successive good upon successive good at the only point it can occur—now.

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