Do you know people who arealways late?  You just know that they’re not coming until ten minutes after starting time, no matter what the starting time is.  Do they think they’re so important that everyone else ought to wait on them?  Do they want to make an entrance, so that everybody will see them?

I have seen many times when the speaker would say some foundational things in the first few minutes, that were absolutely necessary to understanding everything else that would be said, and somebody comes walking in after those things have been said, and the intended connection is not made.

It is disrespectful to consistently be late.  It conveys the message that you don’t esteem it to be all that important, or that you think you are so important that you can’t possibly arrive when everybody else does.

The Bible says in Galatians 4:4, “When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son…”  Have you ever thought about what a difference it would have made, if He had been late.  If you do a study on the time frame in which Jesus lived, you will see that there was a small window of time when everything came together just right for the Scriptures to be fulfilled.  God is never late.  There will be times that we cannot help being late, but they ought to be few and far between.