A Time Will Come
by Jim Person
18 April 2026
« Previous DayI peered out of my little window in my trailer. The morning was overcast and the sky looked grey and gloomy. The promise of the day was a forbidding one, without any hope seen. It was days like this that made me want to crawl back into my warm blankets and cover my head in their secure embrace. The landscape before me was not promising and seemed like it wouldn’t produce anything.
Yet this turned out to be the day our nets would sink with the huge amounts of salmon we caught in our webbing!
Looking back on that day taught me not to trust what my eyes perceived and think that was to be the future for me. No. The Lord holds the promise of a much better future in His hands. I need to trust Him for that.
I have found that it is better for me to do the opposite of what I feel inclined to do based on what I see happening around me.
To believe that God has a better way is the ability to trust in Him rather than our own judgment of the future based upon what we see around us.
In today’s passage, God tells us that today’s gloominess doesn’t dictate what is going to be. A time will come when we won’t be able to contain the amount of the harvest. It will grow faster than we can imagine. Today is a new day to take steps towards the Lord’s provision for our lives.
Jim Person Jim grew up in Alaska and from a small child commercial fished every summer with his family. God called him, his wife Tanya, and their four children to move to Hungary as missionaries in 2003. God then led him to join Ellel Ministries in 2005. After serving in various positions with Ellel in Central and Eastern Europe, God led them back to the United States, where he is now serving with the Ellel USA team. Jim and Tanya have a passion to see leaders restored, the church discipled and walking in God’s fullness of life and freedom. They also love mentoring the existing and developing Ellel teams wherever God leads them. Jim also has a real gift for working with the land to create a beautiful and welcoming environment.
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