After her 8-year-old daughter, Maddie, was involved in an ATV accident last month, Jamie Lynn Spears admits that “God’s timing is no coincidence.”
Jamie Lynn Spears
The singer and actress took to Instagram this week on her birthday to share a page from her devotional. With it, she wrote a message to fans about what God has taught her through the scary process of the unknown—particularly, the lessons that came from Maddie’s horrific accident.
Her morning devotional for April 4 was titled “Your Times Are In My Hands.”
It’s a reminder that God’s timing is absolute perfection. Although in our humanness, we may long for urgency and a fast-forward button, God is the master of all things time. Anything we could ever need, desire or pray for will come in His perfect timing, and the blessings are more than we could imagine.
With a photo of the passage she wrote:
Jamie Lynn Spears
“I turned 26 years old today. I’m not one to preach, and I’m no priest, but God’s timing is no coincidence,” she wrote. “Music, and my career have always been a big passion in my life as well as to create a future that my family could be proud of.”
She continues:
“I have been working on my music for almost a decade now, and I have had many great successes as an artist/writer, but I was always wondering, how long I would have to WAIT for my big break?”
Jamie Lynn Spears
The devotional passage talks about how followers of Jesus Christ have to “submit to the reality of time.” It gives examples of a bride who wishes the wedding would come sooner, and a person who is suffering, hoping for instant relief.