Week 48 Titus
In the salutation Paul starts talking about the gospel. The thing I notice is that Paul says the gospel was: promised long ages ago. I check another version: before the world began. And another: before the beginning of time. So a pledge – a guaranteed forecast – was made long ago and then – Paul says – the vow came true: at the proper time. Another version says: the appointed season. Another: at the right time.
I get a slip of paper and draw a horizontal line. At the far left I write Promise. Along the line left-to-right I write names: Adam-&-Eve Noah Abraham Egypt Promised-Land Kingdom Babylon…like that. Through the OT people are doing what they do and the Promise is floating around in the ether. Then BOOM! The Right Time is now. The Promise happens.
I think how I scheme out my own plans. They’re my plans and they’re independent of other things (as long as there’s not another big & undetectable domain of consequential plans that are also imperceptibly in play).
Everyone makes his plans and does what he does pretty much oblivious to other goings-on.
I remember the story about American men & women in Hawaii making their plans and doing what they were doing on December 6 1941. Pretty much oblivious to anyone else’s plan until someone else’s plan materialized.
My plans…going along as planned…thrumming along in undetectable parallel with another plan.
Note: quotes from Titus 1:2 & 3 (NASB, NLT, NIV)