"The Coming Of The Right Time"   [Module # 85] (John 7:1-24)

There’s Rosa Parks, whose time had come with heat,
And dust, fatigue, in bus upon a street;
She simply could not take another step,
So sat down on the seat – not much – and yet –

When she refused to move to rear of bus,
She triggered protests – lots of push and fuss;
A simple woman for whom time had come –
She took a rightful place there at the front.

Here Jesus knew His time was up the road;
Still wanting to attend, He chose to go
To Festival the fall before he died;
In secret came to gates and slipped inside.

For getting killed, arrested, or the like,
Before the time in God for Him was right,
Was not the point, He went to do His task –
And taught the folks attending when they asked.

So too, with me in life, up ’till this point;
It’s thirty years I’ve hung around this joint;
Conjunction of some factors now I see,
Says something else is going on for me.

The balance-point of interactive life
Is now the place where active-passive’s tight
For others, but for me two aspects hold
The keys to living here once more as bold –

“What do you now believe from time in prayer,
You have received from God – keep focus there
In asking of your God – ‘Please give to me
The gift You’ve given – that’s what I’ll now receive’”

And, “How far down this road are you involved?
What can I do for you to get it solved?
For willingness that’s active is the key
For doing things for you, you ask of Me.”

For Rosa, active willingness was key
To sitting where they said she shouldn’t be;
“Do this and that, give Me some room to move,
And I’ll see others get new rules approved.”

For Jesus, suffering servant was the role
At Festival in spring when time was full
Of meaning others understood so well;
He felt no urge so publicly to tell –

His friends, disciples, kin, He was the one
God sent to save the world right then, and run
The risk of His arrest, untimely death –
So better to stay quiet – save his breath –

Until the time was right to push on through
And finish up the work He came to do;
So too with us – in inter-active mode –
His yoke is easy, light will be our load.

I hear it Lord, it’s not so spooky now;
The cues and clues in life sometimes allow
Us insight into what is meant in prayer –
Feet on the ground, with spirits in the air.

Lord open up diagonal for me;
When time is right please grace my life to be
Responsive to Your guiding, urging word,
In step with You, with Father’s wisdom heard.

Lord, what I hear, “The time is right for you;
Pick up the load of work I’ve given to do;
In me the outcome is assured and past,
And life in Me can move ahead at last.”

Lord, if I’ve got this wrong in what I’ve seen
(And heard from Charlie – “Live your life as green”),
Please help me to correct all this at once,
And grace my life to be Your servant-dunce.

Thanks Lord for this.

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