ECCLESIASTES 3:1\u20138<\/b><\/p>\n
A time for every purpose under heaven<\/i><\/p>\n
(Eccl. 3:1)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
In chapter 3 we find the Preacher still pursuing his argument that everything is in perpetual change. It is vain, therefore, to seek solid happiness in so shifting a scene. We might as well try to find peace on the tossing waves, where there is no fixed island upon which we can rest from the continual toss and turns of life. \u201cIt is the \u2018wheel of nature\u2019 (James 3:6),\u201d Bridges wrote. \u201cSometimes one spoke is uppermost\u2014sometimes the opposite. But all is in constant motion.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd yet all these fluctuations are under absolute control. It is not a world of chance or of fate. All events\u2014even the most apparently casual\u2014all those voluntary actions, that seem to be in our own power, with all their remotest contingencies\u2014are overruled. To everything there is a season\u2014a fixed time\u2014a predetermined purpose, on which\u2014and not on man\u2019s care, thought, or effort\u2014everything depends. Of this purpose we know nothing. But \u2018known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.\u2019 (Acts 15:18). His eye has been upon everything, great and small, from eternity. All is His unchangeable will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite sin\u2019s disruption of nature\u2014we die, we mourn, we kill, we are scattered, we hate, we waste time\u2014the purpose of God continues to progress. \u201cThe wheel in the middle of the wheel\u201d (Ezek. 1:15\u201321) moves forward and performs the appointed work. God sees everything from beginning to end. He has charted the seasons, and we cannot thwart His purposes. \u201cThere was a season for Israel\u2019s deliverance from Egypt, and for the return from Babylon. Nothing could either force on, or keep back the time.\u2026 To have looked for it at any other time\u2014whether sooner or later\u2014would only have brought disappointment. There was \u2018the fullness of time,\u2019 the appointed season\u2014the fittest time\u2014for the Savior\u2019s advent (Gal. 4:4). An earlier period would have hindered many important purposes, or at least clouded their full development.\u201d<\/p>\n
God has set the wheels of time in motion. Everything that happens to us is known by Him. Under the canopy of His sovereignty, we find comfort and assurance that all things are working out for the ultimate good. Let us then embrace the seasons of life with Christian patience and diligence, that we might bring glory to God at all times.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Psalms 107\u2013108<\/p>\n
1 Corinthians 4<\/p>\n
WEEKEND<\/b><\/p>\n
Psalms 109\u2013117<\/p>\n
1 Corinthians 5<\/p>\n
Read Ecclesiastes 3:1\u20138. What season are you going through? What do you think God is teaching you at this time? Think back to other seasons of your life. What lessons did you learn through each one? Are you anxious to put this season behind you as well? If so, ask God for patience and faith in His purposes and His wisdom.<\/p>\n
For further study: Isa. 14:24\u201327 \u2022 John 13:1\u201317 \u2022 Eph. 1:3\u201314; 3:1\u201313<\/i><\/p>\n
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