FOR THIS NECESSARY TIME

"3 And when the wine was lacking, the mother of Jesus said to her, They have no wine. 4 Jesus said to him, What do you have with me, woman? My time has not yet come. 5 His mother said to those who served: Do whatever he tells you. "John 2: 3-5

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This scripture tells us the moment when, while Jesus was at the wedding at Cana in Galilee, the wine is over, and his mother, Mary, tells him that he has to do something. Jesus says "my hour has not come", and he already has disciples, he had already been baptized; he had already begun to walk in God's call for his life. Mary ignored the words of Jesus, and Jesus did the miracle; water became wine, and that was the best wine.

"11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him. "John 2:11

Jesus had already begun his ministry, he already had disciples. However, he encounters this situation, and it turns out that, according to him, it was not his time. In a way, he was forced to do something that caused the signals to start. A person can have a calling and a ministry, and not see the signs of that ministry. You can have the call to be an entrepreneur, to have the desire to be one, to reach it, you can be called to be one, and not see the signs. And the great thing is that there are people who admire you, who follow you, but they will only believe when they see the signs; and, for you to see them, there has to be a beginning, you have to enter in a time so that you start now to accelerate the call you entered.

Jesus is baptized; God says: This is my beloved Son; He begins his ministry, looks for his disciples, and is invited to the wedding at Cana in Galilee. He had not done miracles yet, no sign; they followed him because they had seen something special in him, but they had not seen the signs necessary for the ministry to start moving to another dimension. So there is a space of time between the call, the anointing to do something, and the rapid or accelerated start of fulfilling your call. Many wonder if they have been called for something, for this; They wonder why they do not move quickly. And there has to be a beginning of signals that causes what you were called to start moving quickly in your life. There must be something that must happen in your mind, in your heart, so that now the accelerated onset of that for which you were called is given.

Esther becomes queen at a crucial moment; They sought to destroy the people of Israel, and Esther married the king, winning a pageant of beauty, becoming the queen. Her uncle, Mordecai, prepared her for that moment, not because she was a beauty queen, but because he knew what she would do at a precise moment; He took advantage of the circumstances so that, when the time came, that would be fulfilled. The people of Israel were in trouble, and Mordecai searches for his niece, Esther, and says: You have to tell the king what is happening; It is the only way we will be freed from this. And Esther begins to hesitate in the matter; She is afraid because she could not enter the king's bedroom without permission.

"12 And they told Mordecai the words of Esther. 13 Then Mordecai said to answer Esther: Do not think that you will escape in the king's house more than any other Jew. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, respite and deliverance will come from somewhere else for the Jews; But you and your father's house will perish. And who knows if by this time you have reached the kingdom? "Esther 4: 12-14

Mordecai says to his niece, Esther: Be certain that, if you do nothing, God will deliver us in this time, respite and relief will come from somewhere; Has not God put you in that place for this time?

If we contrast these two stories, we see two people who are struggling with time and circumstances. God does not move by circumstances, but by time, by what He wants to do at a specific time. Unfortunately, the mind of man is often limited by his circumstances. Some say that we were created to deal with the problems we face; but we were created for a time, which does have certain situations, certain challenges; but these circumstances have existed through the ages. God brought you in this time that has these circumstances; But your focus can not be to see God in the midst of your circumstances, but to see God at this time in your life. God is not a circumstantial God, he is a God of time. In the beginning, man moved in eternity; God establishes the time when man sins, in order to redeem man at a specific time. God has to set the time to put an expiration date to man's sin. God was going to manifest himself, not for a circumstance, but at a specific, precise time, to redeem man.

You were not created for some circumstances, for a geographical place, but for a time, for what God wants to do at this time in your country and in your family. Instead of seeing the limitation of your circumstances, what you have to be seeing is in what time of God's destiny for your life you find yourself, to begin to see the powerful hand of God and to understand the circumstances that you are living because He positioned you - not in these circumstances, but - in this time, to do something.

What you are is struggling with the problem, with the circumstances; and this overwhelms you, limits you, paralyzes you, stops you, you do not know what to do. But the power of God is determined for this time in your life to overcome any circumstance. God assigns the times to the destiny of each man so that he can enter into what God established. If you are able to go above and beyond the circumstances you are living, you will be able to enter God's time.