In the Fullness of Time

"But when the fullness of the time was come..." Galatians 4:4
This verse references Jesus' birth, that God waited for the exact right time to send Jesus into the world. He knew what the circumstances needed to be for His plan of salvation to work best. God's timing is impeccable.
     It is amazing to me how that once I surrendered my lack of understanding as to why God has waited to answer and made the decision to go forward with this prayer, leaving that lack in His hands, how He has begun to show me reasons why He has waited.
     One of those reasons was definitely because God needed to do something big in the life of one of my students and He did at camp last week. Stephanie pointed out to me that perhaps God has delayed because He knows our human tendencies, that perhaps we would not be as committed to pray for Tebow once we meet him, or that we might quit praying for him all together because we met him. Perhaps he has needed those prayers more so now, in the summer, than he ever did in the spring. Perhaps the kids need to realize that the commitment was to pray for Tebow, answer or not.
     Whatever the reason for the delay, God very clearly showed me in this verse today that the circumstances are not quite right yet for Him to answer this, that the timing is not yet right for His purpose for this journey to be best fulfilled.
     I am confident though, that it will be and that when everything is just the way He wants it, we'll get that phone call, or letter or neon sign in the sky that we're meeting Tebow and how utterly amazing it will be because we didn't force His hand and demand that He answer in our time.