7 Scenarios when “God’s time” baffles everyone!

All the people will tell you, “God’s time is the best” when you have been trying something and not succeeding. Some will tell you to keep on trying, as long as you are alive. Some will tell you to give up on that and try something else. Famous is the phrase that says, “When one door closes, another door opens”. Some people insist you may be struggling to push a closed door, while ignoring another open door. But logically, not every open door is the right door to enter, sometimes it is worth banging the closed door until it opens. Ultimately, you live just once, so it is upon you to determine how long you wish to hold on, and when to give up.

Well, am not refuting that, because the truth is, I don’t know if God’s time is the best. But wait until you meet yourself in situations like these: =

1. You have been through campus, all 4 or 5 years. Passed with excellent grades, and you are intelligent by all standards but you tarmac more than 5 years chasing elusive jobs. You even start wondering, “Did I get all this education for nothing?” worse, if no one bothers to replay saying there is no job! And here you are, so poor and miserable even class 4 drop outs are doing better than you and striking huge deals!
2. You have been trying out some business, investing a lot of your time, money, effort etc. only to end up incurring losses or closing down completely due to unknown reasons. You start thinking of the famous “kamutii” might be your only solution!
3. You are a lady, beautiful by all standards, chaste “no child out of wedlock”, well learned too. But you are way past 30 and no man seems to approach you for marriage. You even try becoming a church goer but wapi, you start asking yourself, “Kwani ni lirogwa na mrogi akakufa?”Yet all your younger sisters, friends, some “more rotten than you” all are getting married or are married with several children to show of it!
4. You are a man, very successful, handsome too and tall! But way past 35 and all ladies you propose to none wants to settle with you. Hard call considering that as much as we believe ladies love monies men, your monies are not getting you a lady, neither is your charms! Yet your childhood friends all have families! Ouch!
5. Been married, 5 years or more down the line. You have not gotten even a single child. (Many argue its better if you had one who died, at least you know you can…even medics know that is way better than having never…) but never gotten pregnant, you have tried several solutions and none is working. Society complicates everything by starting to talk behind your back. Kikuyus ladies know how hurtful it is to be labeled “Thaata”!
6. You have been in a relationship which got sour and ended up with a child. You get into another marriage, the man ends up as another of Lucifer’s brothers and you quit with another child! Yet you are such a nice girl! You just get all the wrong men. Yet some bitches are getting married to excellent gentlemen and you really start wondering whether you were never meant to get married! But deep down in your heart you know how you really wish to get married and settle in a family. Single mother tag was beyond your imaginations while growing up but…umejikuta tu hapo!
7. You have been a good worshiper, saved all the time you can remember. You pray to God, you fast, you tithe, you live according to his instructions but still your life is going “south” in so many aspects. Your faith seems not to be working or worse, to be working against you! You behold people who live like there is no God succeeding in everything you have been praying to God and failing. And you wonder why most of the most powerful atheists were once very good Christians? Life sucked majority

Trust me, if you find yourself in one of the above situations, the phrase “God’s time is the best” sounds like a sick joke. Worse, some people will make you feel like you are cursed!

There are some verses in the Bible which goes like:

Ecclesiastes 3:5 – 7:

…5A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. 6A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. 7A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak.…

But where does one draw the line? When do you draw the line? After one year, 5 years, 10 or 20?

NB: Regardless of your religious creed or beliefs, never give up in life unless you are dead. Every success is worth celebrating no matter how long it took to achieve it.

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