Hey, welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

The devotional reading for today titled God's Timing was written by Leslie Coe.

Mag had been looking forward to her planned trip to another country, but as was her usual practice,

she prayed about it first. It's just a holiday, a friend remarked, why do you need to consult God?

Mag, however, believed in committing everything to him. This time, she felt him prompting her to cancel the trip.

She did, and later, when she would have been there, an epidemic broke out in the country.

I feel like God was protecting me, she notes.

Noah also relied on God's protection as he and his family waited in the ark for nearly

two months after the flood subsided. After being cooped up for more than 10 months, he must have been

eager to get out. After all, Genesis 813 says that the water had dried up from the earth and the ground was dry.

But Noah didn't just rely on what he saw. Instead, he left the ark only when God told him to.

He trusted that God had good reason for the extended weight.

Perhaps the ground wasn't completely safe yet.

As we pray about the decisions in our life, using our God-given faculties and waiting for his leading,

we can trust in his timing, knowing that our wise creator knows what is best for us.

As the psalmist declared in Psalm 31, I trust in you, Lord, my times are in your hands.

Today's Our Daily Brad devotional scripture reading is from Genesis Chapter 8, verses 1 through 5, and 13 through 18.

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind

over the earth and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens

had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the

150 days, the water had gone down, and on the 17th day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest

on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to recede until the 10th month, and on the first day of the 10th month,

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