TIMING OF VISION

“UNTIL THE TIME that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him” – Psalm 105:19

Fulfilment of Destiny is vitally connected to the TIMING of VISION: “He sent a man before them – Joseph – who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters, he was laid in irons. UNTIL THE TIME that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king SENT and released him, the rule of the people let him go free” (Psa.105: 17-20). Our Sovereign God has a Timing for every divine Vision; hence we need to move at His pace. Vision develops in phases, which we must prayerfully discern and align with.

Today’s text narrates Joseph’s Journey of Destiny. From being his father’s favorite son, with a “coat of many colours,” Joseph passed through a dreadful pit, Potiphar’s house, and the Prison, until he was ushered into the Palace, as Prime Minister of Egypt. Through the temptations and trials, he saw the finger of God, and the Lord honoured his Vision, Faith and Patience by granting him Favour with everyone he encountered along life’s path. He was a prosperous man in the house of Potiphar, his master, because God was with him (Gen.39:2-3).

Joseph, who was SOLD as a slave came to realize that he was actually SENT to be a Blessing to those who initially rebelled against his Vision of Leadership and Preservation of Posterity. Divine Vision answers to Divine Timing: “For the VISION is yet for an APPOINTED TIME, but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, WAIT for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (Hab.2:4). Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To everything there is a season, a TIME for every PURPOSE under heaven” – There is a Time for every Vision under heaven!

The children of Israel had a vision of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey, but on the wilderness way, they had to depend entirely on God’s guidance to know when to make any new moves: “Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, after that the children of Israel would journey; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the children of Israel would pitch their tents” (Num. 9:17). Whoever tries to run ahead of his vision will either get into trouble or fall into a ditch. Moses attempted to become a judge over Israel before God’s appointed time; he failed woefully (Exo. 2:11-14). Even our Lord Jesus Christ was time-conscious: “...Mine hour is not yet come” (Jh. 2:4).

The Error of Timing could mean hurrying ahead of one's appointed time, or delaying due to carelessness or procrastination. After conversion, Saul of Tarsus didn’t become known to the rest of the apostles until after three years sojourn in the solitude of Arabia (Gal.1:17,18). Psalm 102:13 says, “You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for THE TIME to FAVOR her, yes, the SET TIME, has come”!