Imagine graduating

from high school in the '60s when the best rock 'n' roll ever written

was being blasted on the radio and we had cool black and white TV.

Now those were

the days! The words "couch potato" hadn't been coined yet because

you still had to get off the couch to turn on and off the TV. Imagine

that!

In fact there

was a song on the top 10 charts entitled "Timing." It went something

like this in the chorus: "cause you need timing, a-tick-a-tick-a-tick-a,

good timing, a-tock-a-tock-a-tock-a good timing. It was that timing that

brought you to me."

Today I smile

at those songs we loved to listen to and yet once in a while there was

a deep message. Have you ever had a marvelous idea that for all practical

purposes should be the best idea around and one that would solve great

problems? Yet no matter how hard you try to get the idea off the ground,

nothing seems to happen and it goes nowhere?

Years ago in

the early '70s I was in the entertainment business. Our band won the Battle

of the Bands in Atlanta and as part of the prize for winning, we received

a record contract with a company called Rink Records. We were very excited

that we now had our hand on the very doorknob of success. Things were

really on the move!

We all went

into the studio and recorded two songs, one called "Fun While it

Lasted" and the flip side was a new dance called "The Frog."

Don't laugh. I have heard a lot worse songs out there than what we produced,

but timing is everything. Much to our total disbelief, the two partners

who owned the record company got to fighting over who knows what, and

they both took each other to court. All this did was lock down all the

assets of the company, which of course contained our wonderful two hits.

What finally

happened was that the legal proceedings went on for over a year and it

totally killed the momentum and the desire to recover our property. We

could have continued but we didn't have the backing, assets or contacts

to start with another company. In other words, timing is everything and

for everything there is a season.

As I look back

30-plus years later on the whole ordeal, I totally see the hand of God

in the "timing" of those two men at Rink Records splitting up

the assets and going to court. Had that not happened, and our record had

hit the charts, who knows where any of our band members would be today?

Success in

God's eyes is not measured by bank statements but in heart throbs. In

God's Word in Ecclesiastes chapter 3 it states: "To everything there

is a season, and a time under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time

to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to

build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a

time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones

together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time

to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a

time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silent and a time to speak;

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."

Think back

over examples or circumstances in your own life where this may have been

the case. I'm sure you'll find that God's timing is never late!

The Rev. Dr.

Knox Herndon is the pastor of His House Community Church (SBC) and a former

Army chaplain. The church is just below Senoia on Ga. Highway 85, a mile

south of Ga. Highway 16 on the right just below the fire station. Visitors

welcome. Church office and prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail [email protected].

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