God's TimeBy Woodrow Kroll
Part 3 - God's Time - All things
beautiful
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1 - God's Time - Pearl of Wisdom
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2 – God's Time - Season and time, Polar Opposites
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4 - God's
Time - Going
according to plan
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Part 3 - All things beautiful
Why does Solomon say
all these things about time? The answer is found in verse 11: "He [God] has made everything beautiful
in its time."
At the appropriate
point in time, God will make everything fit into the season of your life. It's
like the pieces of a puzzle.
You struggle to piece
things together, and then all of a sudden things just seem to fall into place.
That's what happens when you commit both your times and your seasons to God.
The word translated "beautiful"
does not mean "lovely" or "pretty." It means "fitting,"
"appropriate" or "proper."
There is a fitting
point in time that God has determined something should happen.
Accordingly, God will
never be late and He'll never be early. Furthermore, He knows the proper
duration for that event. He never holds it over too long or cuts it off too
short.
In the same fashion,
God knows the most fitting points and the most appropriate seasons of our lives
as well. He knows exactly the number of days He's given to you, and nobody can
shorten those days; nobody can lengthen them either.
Our times and seasons
are in God's hand. And what we entrust to God's hand, God makes
"proper" in its time.
So what does that
mean--God makes everything fitting or proper in its own time?
Consider the polar
opposites in verse 2 again as an example: "A
time to be born, and a time to die."
Is it possible that
God can make even death beautiful in its time? He can. At the proper time, God
makes death fitting. He makes it appropriate. He makes it proper.
There is a time for us
to be born--a day in which God determines we will be born--and there's also a
day in which God determines that our life on this side of the grave will end. A
time to be born, and a time to die.
To shorten our days
through suicide or to lengthen them through heroic care fails to demonstrate
faith in God's ability to know the proper season of our lives.
After Jacob had seen
his long-lost son Joseph, he said, "Now
let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive" (Genesis 46:30).
He knew his days had
been fulfilled. The duration--the season--was done. The exact day of his death
was in God's hands. But Jacob knew this season of his life had reached its
completion.
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Click here for Part
1 - God's Time - Pearl of Wisdom
Click here for Part
2 – God's Time - Season and time, Polar Opposites
Click here for Part
4 - God's
Time - Going
according to plan
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