A Gentle Reminder: You’re Not Behind, You’re Just Learning to Trust God’s Timing

Self-Help

By Rebecca Simon

Updated 56 minutes ago, December 21, 2025

Feeling “behind” is one of the most common lies the enemy whispers — and one of the easiest ones to believe.

But when you pray over your timeline, you’re not asking God to speed things up; you’re asking him to help you see your life through his perspective instead of your panic. You’re asking him to break the illusion that you’re late and to remind you that divine timing doesn’t always look familiar.

So much anxiety comes from comparing where you are to where you expected to be. But God doesn’t measure progress the way we do. He develops you in seasons that feel still. He prepares you in moments that feel quiet. He strengthens you in what looks like delay. Most of his work is invisible until suddenly, everything comes together in a way that makes you realize nothing was wasted and nothing was stalled — it was all being aligned.

Let this be the year God rewrites your relationship with time. It might begin with a shift in how you speak to yourself, a deep breath that interrupts old fear, or the realization that growth is happening even when nothing appears to be moving on the surface. God is not bound by the timelines you created in fear or comparison. His plans unfold with precision, with purpose, and with mercy.

Pray with confidence: not to rush your life, but to trust it. Ask God to show you that “too late” does not exist in his vocabulary. Ask him to redeem the years you feel you lost, to prepare what you’re waiting for, and to guide you toward a future that doesn’t require fear or urgency to reach.

This year, may your timeline reflect not pressure, but peace — the kind that comes from trusting a God who is never early, never late, and always right on time.