We’re just days away from a new year. It’s a great time to reflect on what needs to stay the same in your life and what needs to change. 

One of the most important things to consider is how you can stay tuned in to God’s timing. 

Every great accomplishment involves timing. 

A successful football catch requires incredible timing between quarterback and receiver. If you sing, you know how important it is to keep time with the other musicians.

Many years ago, Pastor Rick wrote a book called The Purpose Driven Church. 

In the first chapter he compares leadership to surfing: No surfer says, “Let’s go make some waves today.” 

Surfers can’t create waves in the ocean. 

Only God can do that. 

Surfers wait for the waves that God creates.

That means surfers spend a lot of time waiting. Sometimes they might see a wave and let it go, knowing it’s not the right time. 

Other times they see just the right wave, so they start paddling faster and faster, catch the wave, ride the wave, and get off the wave without wiping out. 

Surfing looks easy, but in reality it requires a lot of skill.

The same is true in life. You have to develop the skill of timing. 

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 8:6, “There is a right time and there is a right way to do everything, but we know so little” (GNT).

There’s a rhythm to your ministry. Learning to do the right thing at the right time takes skill. 

Sometimes God’s Spirit leads you to run fast. Sometimes he leads you to walk slowly.

You can enter the new year trying to make your own waves. Or you can learn to see and catch the waves God is making all around you.