Pacing Your Life

“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1

All of us are living ordered steps. We’re all the product of an eternal design. God is pacing our lives so that those ordered steps are always in sync with His sovereign will.

The question I want you to wrestle with this week is: What is your current discernment regarding the Lord’s pacing in this season of your life?

We often want God’s promises without God’s pacing. What do you do when God shows you the plan, but you don't like the pace?

We say, “I want it now. The pace feels too slow. It’s taking too long. It’s requiring too much sacrifice.

Timing matters, and our discernment of the Lord’s pacing is crucial. When is as important as what and how. Timing and speed are critical to walking with Christ. Sometimes God asks us to sprint into new opportunities. Sometimes He calls us to crawl slowly through struggle. Both can be holy when they match His will.

Here’s the tension we feel: We are told to run our race with patience, and yet we are also told to “be still and know that I am God.” Which is it—move or wait? The answer is found in intimacy. When you're supposed to run, God’s going to push you. And when you're supposed to go slow, God’s going to still you.

The wisdom of pacing is not in rushing ahead or dragging behind but in staying in step with the Lord. Wisdom is knowing when to step up, when to step back, when to step out, and when to step away.

The real question in every season of life is not just: What is God saying to me? The deeper question is: How is He pacing me right now?