God’s Clock Keeps Perfect Time

 

God’s Clock Keeps Perfect Time

Galatians 4:4-5, “But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”

       For centuries the world had needed a savior. Surely the people were in darkness and sin. In these dark times God the father sent His only son to come to earth that were under the law. God knew that the wages of sin is eternal death, but God also knew that only the giving of His son Jesus could bring eternal life to this sin cursed world. All those who loved and served Jehovah that lived during Old Testament times looked forward to the coming of the Messiah. They must have wondered why they were left without the promised Emanuel.

       I cannot imagine what it would have been like to have been born during those dark times. It is amazing to me that many of the Jewish church leaders, who knew the prophesies about the coming of Christ, were not looking for a Savior who would be born in obscurity, humility, and poverty in a stable in the little town of Bethlehem.

       But when God’s clock said that it was the right time, He sent His son to this earth so that we would be able to receive remission of sins and be adopted into the family of God. Although we do not understand why the time was right for our Savior to be born, we know that he did come and that He came to save us from sin. Praise God that His clock does keep perfect time. Because it does, we are the benefactors of this great salvation.