He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Jairus was a well-known, powerful, wealthy individual who was the head of the local synagogue. When his twelve-year-old daughter, his only child, was in great need, he sought out Jesus to heal her.

We don’t know whether Jairus was a believer in Jesus. As the head of the synagogue, he would certainly have been a religious man. He’d probably heard about Jesus. Maybe he had already put his faith in Him. The Scripture doesn’t say. Nevertheless, Jairus believed that Jesus could save his daughter’s life. So he went and found the Lord and begged Him to heal his daughter. He placed his complete trust in Jesus.

But as they were on the way to his house, the news came that his daughter had died. The reason they hadn’t arrived at his daughter’s side more quickly was because a woman in need of healing came along and touched Jesus, and He stopped and demanded to know who it was that touched Him.

Jairus, however, didn’t complain. He had committed himself and his situation to Jesus, believing that God knew what He was doing. His faith was dramatic, especially because at this particular time in Jesus’ ministry, He had not raised anyone from the dead. Granted, He had healed people. But there had been no resurrections.

Jairus had to wait, and sometimes we have to wait. A lot of us grow impatient with God, and in our impatience, we may foolishly take things into our own hands and make them far worse. Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. We need to wait on the Lord. He’s worth waiting for! God’s timing is just as important as His will. He doesn’t ask for us to understand, He just asks us to trust.