Good morning, everyone!
Today I read Ecclesiastes 1-4, but I won't go over everything. Today I want to focus on just a small part of these chapters. Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books of the Bible, for exactly the verses I'm going to share with you now.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 - That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.
One generation can claim that "this has never been done before," or "no one has gone through what we're going through," but neither statement is true.
Everything that is, was, and everything that has been, will be again. Nothing that is happening is new. It has all happened before to previous generations.
In a way, I find this comforting. It's a reminder that there is nothing we can experience that God cannot help with. Just as He helped generations before us, He will help us, as He will help the generations after us.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 - There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven-a time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. A time to search and a time to give up as lost; a time to keep and a time to throw away. A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; a time to be silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
There is an appointed time for everything, and a purpose for your season. Whatever season of life you are in, or whatever time you are in (whether it is waiting or moving) there is an appointed time for it. It begins and it ends, and you move into the next season.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 - He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Let me repeat: God has an appointed time for everything. Yet it is not for us to know His plans.
Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 - I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. That which is has been already, and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.
All of God's works will remain eternally. And they need no changes.
I think that's all for today. I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read Ecclesiastes 5-8.
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