Title: A Time for Everything
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Content:
It is so interesting that the wisest king in the history would write this.
The 8 verses simply emphasizes that everything has it's time and it's season. It seems so cool to acknowledge that each season, we need to do different things and to take our approach differently.
King Solomon said: 'There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.' (v1) To think about it, this is so true. Simply look out into the world and we witness the nature and the beautiful world that God has created. He made it so beautiful and pretty that each quarter of the year, so part in the world will experience each season of Summer, Spring, Autumn and Winter. Thinking about this further, at any same time, each part of the world would experience all the different seasons concurrently! How amazing is this!
I guess the important lesson that we can take away from here is that we must prepare ourselves for each different seasons. We ought to seek His will to know what is our next course of action in each phase of our spiritual life.
For instance, there will be times when we work extra hard to serve the Lord. This may be the time when He wants us to share what He has given us unselfishly. Then of course there is time when the Lord wants us to sit back and relax. This may be the times when He wants us to nourish ourselves with the Word of God or even attending some bible training course. This means a time when we spend more time to learn and strengthen our relationship with Him.
Think about this: if we keep giving away generously from our possession, even while we may be the richest person, we will eventually run out of possession if we don't find any means to replenish our possession. It is the same with spiritual blessings. We may teach and tell and do plenty of things in His ministry, BUT more importantly, God wants us to spend time with Him.
The time of retreating away from the business of the world to spend quiet, intimate and quality time with Him is very much essential. If we don't spend time with Him seeking His will, how do we know if He wants us to serve Him in which ministry at all? Moreover, importantly we seek God because God calls us to have a close relationship with Him, it is not just mainly because of His ministry, but rather that is our calling in life.
There is a time for everything... what is His will in your life at this time? Reflect and think in what season are you now? Are you
1) Still searching for His will?
2) Knowing His will but struggling to obey Him?
3) Persevering in His will and being encouraged while u are at it?
Whatever season we are in, it is so important to keep our eyes fixated onto Jesus the Author and Perfector of our Faith, when your eyes are on the right focus, your heart will also be focusing the right things. Also take heart and know that there are brothers and sisters as we journeyed along in life.
in His love,
louis
