Our God of the fullness of time: The sweetness of Galatians 4

It's after 1am. An empty coffee cup sits on the table in front of me. My tired eyes blink with the strain of staying awake.

This is my first post to the YARF blog. My first ever blog post was about the passing of great Australians. This post will address a joyous first, for a couple my wife and I know well.

I said my eyes were tired, they're also a little wet! I just received an email from good friends of ours with the first photos of them with their adopted Korean child. The new father is Korean American, the mother, Filipino American. They have had a remarkable journey in their own faith walk and God has brought them to this experience of parenthood in an amazing way.

Several weeks ago, when we had met their new son by photo only, I was reading Galatians and was struck by 4:3-7:
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

I am so awe-struck by that. Our God is a God of the fullness of time. It is so difficult in many of the darkest times in our lives to see that. When we ask God "why?" He answers with the gentleness of a father and the authority of a king, "the fullness of time has not yet come."

It is true in the cross. It is true in our daily walk. And I praise our God-of-the-fullness-of-time that it is true in the lives of our friends - new parents today.