puricarexfiles: - TIME - EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME - Everything that God has made is beautiful in its appropriate time--even death and war, killing and hating, and all the other "negatives" in the list, as well as the 14 "positives"--healing and loving, building and planting, and many others.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

- TIME - EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME - Everything that God has made is beautiful in its appropriate time--even death and war, killing and hating, and all the other "negatives" in the list, as well as the 14 "positives"--healing and loving, building and planting, and many others.

Everything Beautiful in His Time

By Henry M. Morris, Ph. D

"He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

In verses 2-8 of Ecclesiastes 3 appears a remarkable listing of 28 "times," arranged in 14 pairs of opposites (e.g., "a time to be born, and a time to die," verse 2).

The entire section is introduced by God's definitive statement: "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" (verse 1).

It is then climaxed by His remarkable assurance in the words of our text.

Everything that God has made is beautiful in its appropriate time--even death and war, killing and hating, and all the other "negatives" in the list, as well as the 14 "positives"--healing and loving, building and planting, and many others.

The pronoun (implied) could be either "its" or "His," and since all our "times" are "in thy hand," it is fitting to recognize that the appropriate time for "every purpose under heaven" is His time--God's time (Psalm 31:15).

Thus everything that God has made is, in fact, beautiful when accomplished in His own time, in His way, as set forth in His Word.

We may not understand many things in our time, for "no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."

Nevertheless, when God made us, He "set the world in our hearts," so that the very deepest roots of our nature assure us that God exists and cares.

The Hebrew word for "world" means, literally, that "world without end" (compare Ephesians 3:21).

Thus, all that happens to us, if accepted and applied

according to God's Word, becomes beautiful.

And "we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Roman 8:28).

God’s authority causes anger or fear in individuals who refuse to yield to Him.

But those who have experienced His lovingkindness, trusted in His goodness, and surrendered to His authority take comfort in knowing Him as the Lord of their lives.

Submit to Christ’s rule over your life now and enjoy the freedom and peace under God. Say this prayer:

“Father God, I confess I am a sinner and my sins have separated me from You.

I am truly sorry. I now want to turn away from my past sinful life and live a new life pleasing to You.

Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again.

I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer.

I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward.

Thank You that according to Your Word, I am now born again.

Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. I promise to study Your Word – the Bible.

Use me for Your glory.