A right thing at a wrong time is still a wrong thing

A saying which you may have seen at many places which says, “There is never a wrong time to do the right thing”

My intension out in this writing is not to break this popular phrase completely as it can bear other good thoughts in it, but to voice and give a different view confronting this popular thought.

I say “A right thing at a wrong time is still a wrong thing”, mark the words in comparison to the popular phrase where it means, that there is NEVER a wrong time to do a right thing, whereas, I voice that a right thing can have wrong times which can make the right thing wrong.

Is it confusing; let me explain it with an illustration picking it up to hit a so-called free young mind.

Think about a dating couple who are absolutely committed to each other and contemplating in getting married soon, so they will surely have physical relationship, some day, as a part of their lovely relation and God has made sex which is a right thing as part of their marriage.

But now if the same couple thinks that sex is a right thing to do, since, anyways as they are getting married and thinks of doing that right thing (sex) before marriage, does it now make it right. No, absolutely not, it makes it wrong.

God has ordained sex to be within the boundaries of marriage, if anybody violates it, they run in the risk.

So no matter how right and legitimate a thing may be but when done at a wrong time can in turn make that right thing wrong, thus, “A right thing at a wrong time is still a wrong thing”.

Ecc 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven

Young people this is a very important issue and mostly the young generation lacks patience and everythings seems right and logical. But with patience comes commitment and endurance. To the young couples I say, if anybody approaches you without any commitments, then beware and have patience for the right time and for the right thing.

Remember it is better to have a broken relationship than to have a broken marriage, as the latter has more implications in its connotations.

Have patience for the right time in God and He is faithful to bring us to that right time in every situations of life.

As a practical experience, when decisions are harder to make and things become impatience and paths seems to fall as multiple choices, I feel God has given us a barometer to measure the right or wrong, that is, the barometer of peace.

Many a times waiting patiently upon God, He gives us a sense of peace or a sense of un-easiness about a choice within us to make us understand and choose the correct step in the right path at the right time. This is a process in life that God teaches us and this builds the Christian character.

In 2 Pet1:5-6 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness

And connecting this verse with Rom 5:3-5 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

So you see that patience/perseverance produces the Christian character, which we ought to build within us. But the amazing fact is He is making that character and building it in us day by day and as we hope in Him, He never fails us for He cannot deny Himself, according to 2 Tim 2:13.

Jam 1:3-4 - knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing

So let the Word of God flow through us and let us indulge in knowing His word more and more in our life so that we lack nothing and again I repeat we lack nothing.

Have patience for the right time for things to happen.