You Aren't Behind
Written by OJ Aihie
Key Verse · Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:”
There's a quiet panic that hits in your 20s, the sense that everyone else is on a flight you missed. Engagement. Promotion. Thirty under thirty. Whatever the metric is this week.
Scripture has a different clock.
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:”
Moses spent 40 years in the desert before his real work started. David was anointed king as a teenager and didn't actually get the throne until his thirties. Jesus spent 30 years in obscurity before three years of public ministry.
If those are God's timelines for the people in the Bible, what's making you think yours is behind?
Slow isn't the same as off-track. Hidden isn't the same as forgotten. The 'late bloomer' framing is a marketing concept, not a biblical one.
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