Time for Everything
Do not be impatient, God will give you the time you need to achieve the plan He designed for you.
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven”. (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
There is an appropriate time for everything, the unpleasant as well as pleasant experiences.
* This is not merely a description of what happens in life; it is a description of what God sends. Many of us are familiar with the Four Spiritual Laws, the first of which is,
* “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.”
That is the plan that is set forth here. All along, the Searcher is saying that God desires to bring JOY into human experience.
Many people think Ecclesiastes is a book of gloom and pessimism because of the findings based on the writer’s limited view of those things.
The key to reading Ecclesiastes is this term “under the sun.” The futility of life ‘under the sun’ forces us to consider things beyond life on earth.
**“under the sun,” the visible things of life. But that is not the message of the book.
God intends us to have JOY, and His program to bring it about includes all these opposites.
If you look carefully, you will see that these eight opening verses in Ecclesiastes 3, gather around three major divisions that correspond, amazingly enough, to the divisions of our humanity: body, soul, and spirit.
The first four pairs deal with the body:
**“a time to be born and a time to die” (Ecclesiastes 3:2). Notice how this applies to the physical life.
* None of us asked to be born; it was something done to us, apart from us. *None of us asks to die; it is something God determines.
So this is the way we should view this list of opposites, as a list of what God thinks we ought to have.
It begins by pairing birth and death as the Boundaries of life.
“under the sun.”Then the Searcher moves into the realm of the soul with its functions of thinking, feeling, and choosing—the social areas—and all the interrelationships of life that flow from that.
Ecclesiastes 3: 4 tells us there is
“a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” All these things follow closely, and they are all appropriate.
“No one is going to escape the hurts and sorrows of life” is what he is saying here. God chose them for us!!!
In a fallen world it is right that there will be times of hurt, of sorrow and weeping.
The last six of these opposites relate to the spirit, to the inner decisions, the deep commitments. There is
*“a time to search [for work, marriage, new friends] and a time to give up” (Ecclesiastes 3:6).
There comes a time in life when we should curtail certain friendships or change our jobs, for instance, and lose what we had in the past. It is proper and appropriate that these times should come.
*If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. *Insanity is doing the Same thing and expecting different things to happen!
*Change is inevitable, Misery is an option.
If you wanna make some Enemies, try to Change…Some people fear change.
** But God hasn’t given us the Spirit of fear but Power, Joy, Peace, & a Sound mind.
Refusal to change is called stubbornedness.
Truth Never changes. You can’t grow without it.
All of this is God’s wonderful plan for you to Move Forward in your life. The problem, of course, is that it is not our plan for our life.
If we were given the “right to plan” our lives— we would have no unpleasantness at all. But that would ruin us!!!!
*** God knows that people who are protected from everything almost invariably end up being impossible to live with; they are selfish, cruel, vicious, shallow, and unprincipled.
God sends these things in order that we might be TAUGHT!
There is a time for everything, the Searcher says!
The dryness in a Christian’s life comes when we substitute other things for the living water that only Jesus can give. *Anytime a Christian begins to thirst again, it is not a reflection on the living water that Jesus gives, but rather an indication that we have been drinking from some other source.
Ecclesiastes 7:14 Enjoy prosperity while you can, but when hard times strike, realize that both come from God. Remember that nothing is certain in this life.
*So on the good days I rejoice and on the bad days I rejoice. And I trust in His unfailing, never changing
Hand. I will get through and grow through this. I just keep my eyes on Him! Don’t live on extremes!!!
*The good times are FROM GOD, so when good times are here enjoy them as best as you can. They are gifts from God, don’t waste them.
“Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation” (Isaiah 12:3).
*- When you accept Jesus into your heart as Lord and Savior, a whole new world of previously unexperienced joy opens up to you!
God knew that life on planet earth was not going to be perfect but that we would experience heartache, sorrow and disappointment during our days here.
To combat those days of excruciating pain, God gave us the gift of joy to lift us above the circumstances of earth-bound living!
*Joy is a taste of heaven that is delivered to those who know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
* Joy is the ability to experience in our humanity the blessings that the Lord enjoys in His divinity.
When you make a willful decision to partner with Jesus and to submit to His Lordship and authority, you are making a decision to receive joy into your life. When you choose to give your life to Jesus Christ, joy chooses you!
Gods plan is perfect! And his lessons are full of love and nothing else. His lessons and teaching not only prepare us for the joyous life he wants for us they also continue to strengthen our faith bringing us closer to him where we belong!
Thank you Lord for this amazing reminder in Your Word today.
Father, thank You for all the experiences of life that You have planned for me, so that I might be conformed to the image of Your Son JESUS. Amen
Philippians 4:13 For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.