A Time for Everything
For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quite and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.
What do people really get for all their hard work? I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful in his own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
I don't know about you, but for me I sometimes forget that there is a time for everything. Sometimes I forget to let go and throw away, or to turn away, to stop searching, to tear down, to tear and to mend, to plant or to harvest. I forget that all of these things are meant to happen at a specific time for God's plan. We all have certain opinions and ideas on issues and events going on in our lives and the world. Some of us may be so strongly for peace, love, mending, embracing, healing, building up and planting and others for war, to tear, to tear down, to throw away, to turn away, to quit searching, to hate and to harvest. One thing to remember though is that there is a specific time for all of these things in Gods plan. There is a right timing for war and there is a right timing for peace, a right timing to tear and a right timing to mend, a right timing to kill and a right timing to heal, a right timing to scatter and a right timing to gather, a right time to embrace and a right time to turn away, etc. We cannot know one without the other and there is a specific time in God's plan when each of these are used to better His Kingdom.
For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quite and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.
What do people really get for all their hard work? I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful in his own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
I don't know about you, but for me I sometimes forget that there is a time for everything. Sometimes I forget to let go and throw away, or to turn away, to stop searching, to tear down, to tear and to mend, to plant or to harvest. I forget that all of these things are meant to happen at a specific time for God's plan. We all have certain opinions and ideas on issues and events going on in our lives and the world. Some of us may be so strongly for peace, love, mending, embracing, healing, building up and planting and others for war, to tear, to tear down, to throw away, to turn away, to quit searching, to hate and to harvest. One thing to remember though is that there is a specific time for all of these things in Gods plan. There is a right timing for war and there is a right timing for peace, a right timing to tear and a right timing to mend, a right timing to kill and a right timing to heal, a right timing to scatter and a right timing to gather, a right time to embrace and a right time to turn away, etc. We cannot know one without the other and there is a specific time in God's plan when each of these are used to better His Kingdom.
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