If Only Life Had a “Schedule Post” Button

One of the best parts of blogging (or even Facebook) is that you can schedule posts. You can type it up at 2 a.m. when you’re eating cereal straight from the box, but it won’t show up until tomorrow at 9 a.m. when you look like a responsible adult.

If only recovery worked that way. Imagine: “God, could You schedule my healing for next Tuesday around 4:30, right between small group and Taco Tuesday?” Or, “Lord, please publish my breakthrough immediately after my morning coffee, because I’ll actually be awake by then.”

But spoiler alert: God doesn’t take scheduling requests. His calendar is mysteriously hidden, and for some reason, He does not consult me on it. (Rude, honestly.)

God’s Timing > My Calendar

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Translation: there’s a time for relapse and a time for recovery. A time for ugly-cry prayers and a time for belly-laugh testimonies. A time to give up your control… and another time to give it up again five minutes later because you just grabbed it back.

Recovery is not a one-click publish. It’s more like God saving us in “draft mode” while He works behind the scenes.

The Recovery Drafts Folder

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a lot of “unpublished drafts” in my life:

• That amends I still haven’t made.

• That bad habit I thought was gone but somehow re-downloaded itself.

• That prayer request that’s been sitting in God’s inbox for, oh, five years now.

And yet—God doesn’t hit delete. Philippians 1:6 says: “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

If He started it, He’ll finish it. He’s just editing the draft, fixing the typos, and making sure the story doesn’t flop before hitting “Publish.”

Prayer

Father, thank You for not tossing me in the spam folder when I get it wrong. Thank You that You’re still editing my drafts, still shaping my story, and still showing up even when I want everything to go live on my schedule. Lord, give me patience when I’m demanding instant results, and trust when I feel like You’ve left me in “draft mode” too long. Remind me that Your timing is better than mine, and Your plan is always worth the wait. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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