What all action movies have in common with the stock market...

Timing, they say, is everything. I've been thinking about this since watching the stock market bottom out at 6500 and hearing really smart financiers that run large corporations speak (in person) lately [one secular, one Christian...both profitable in bearish times]. If i were in a relationship, or already in school, either way, i would be investing in the stock market. But i'm not, so i'm not. Its a timing issue.
[i'm about as weird as they come, and without either of those components in life, i would be a day-trading maniac were i to get in now, and ironically, winning might be the worst thing for me right now in life]. So i wait.

It's kind of like in an action movie--if you think about it, everything goes down to the last-possible-split-second-heroic-action, which, if any one of about 176485 variables were changed in the slightest at any point in the movie, would result in catastrophic failure instead. It's all about the timing.

I've also heard a lot of people talk lately about how 'God's timing is perfect.' I agree with that statement on its face value, but i'm not sure they're using it correctly. I feel like its a cop-out. 'Hey Bob, you just showed up 27 minutes late....ah yes...but God's timing is perfect.' Bob's timing, obviously, is not. Neither is mine for most things in life. 'Ah, yes, Matthew, but you've learned so much in the latent times and periodic delays in your life,' i hear people say. Yeah, maybe.

OR MAYBE I SCREWED UP BIGTIME!?

Perhaps its just Colorado Springs, living in a bubble of veritable bliss and organic paradise of all things spiritual and conservative, but life to me feels like people have lost a sense of urgency that is easily covered up by the catch-all perfection of God's timing.

I think we should instead start viewing it as, assuming we chalk it up to the flawless harmonic precision of the Divine Being's nature, Him graciously working out plans for His glory in spite of us being late, early, fitting, starting, and generally screwing things up.

I'm not saying we always get it wrong, but we don't always get it right, either. There are things that people approve and smile upon as if they please God when in reality, we should be questioning them. God does indeed have a season for everything, perfect timing under Heaven, and He is Sovereign. However, He is not the grand master of puppets and we are left to our own devices in many ways. And many times, our devices do not operate in as close accordance with His will and nature as our timing devices that govern our routines, daily Starbucks runs, and workout sessions...they are hardly hallmarks of mechanical precision....