On our life’s journey we’ll face many different situations, experience many different experiences, and meet many different people. Sometimes we have gains, and we laugh. Sometimes we have losses, and we cry. Sometimes our feelings are hurt, and we isolate. Sometimes we really blow it, and we sink. And sometimes we get it right, and we smile.
To expect "unchange" in a changing world, WILL end in disappointment. In Ecclesiastes 3, the idea here is for us to consider that there is an appropriate time for all of life’s experiences and expectations under Heaven.
No one is going to escape the hurts and sorrows of life, is what he is saying here. God chose certain things for us. The proof of that is when God’s own Son came. He was not handed a beautiful life with everything pleasant and delightful, free from struggle and pain.
No, he was, "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," {Isa 53:3 - "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."}.
In a fallen world, it is right that there will be times of hurt, of sorrow and weeping. For mourning and for dancing.
There will be times too when it is right to laugh, to be happy and carefree. There is a time of grief and tears, "a time to mourn," but there is a time to celebrate and to enjoy a festive occasion.
There is a time when we need to embrace others, to show our support for them. But there is a time when we ought to refuse to embrace them, when our support would be misunderstood and would be tantamount to complicity with something evil.
While God has not given us every detail of what our tomorrows will be like, He can and will recreate something beautiful out of the brokenness of our lives.
God knows all about our unfulfilled expectations & dreams & wants & desires. He knows all about our experiences. He knows all about the reality we are currently in. He knows that we don’t always “get it right.” Our timing is off at times. We pluck when we should plant.
We laugh when we should be weeping. We speak when we should be silent.
But God knows the proper time. God knows when its time for us to be born and He knows when its time for us die. God knows when we need to cry and when we need to laugh.
God knows when we need to be silent and when we need to speak. God knows everything about the human experience!
God knows all the minute details of our lives, and He also knows why everything happens when we don't and never could. God sees the little picture of the moments and the details of our lives and He also sees the big picture of how everything unfolds in the light of eternity.
He has created a Heaven, a place untainted by our missed timings and our lost opportunities.
There are some things in life you’ll never know, we'll never on earth figure out the "why's" about. We cannot know all the answers to all our dilemmas and mystery's of life. I don’t know why God would withhold perfectly noble dreams and ambitions from someone, but He does.
There are times when we all have to fly in the dark on some things. But what I do know is, every moment comes to us bursting with a divine purpose that we may not be able to figure out this side of eternity.
These moments are fully understood by a God who transcends time. Furthermore, you were made for Eternity, so you will not understand everything in our temporal world.
Living with unfulfilled expectations is a part of life. The issue becomes then, am I going to desperately complain of the life given to me as a gift, or will I humbly allow God to bring life to me and fulfill my expectations if that is His will.
Today, would you like for God to begin making something beautiful out of your life? How about freedom from life’s expectations and failed expectations?
Beauty replaces the beast when life happens in God’s time, not yours.
Now is always the right time to receive His Son, Jesus. From there, life begins to get into rhythm with the divine Plan for our lives. We grow up learning to share, making friends, learning moral values that will guide us into a beautiful life.
We express our sexuality with someone after we’re married. We get in harmony with our marriage partners and stay with one another. We enjoy the natural things that God has given us to enjoy, rather than manufacturing a false-sense of joy through the accumulation of things.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Remember your possibilities; forget your limitations.
Remember your potentialities; forget your seeming restrictions.
Remember your abilities; forget your disabilities.
Remember your assets; forget your liabilities.
Remember your strengths; forget your weaknesses.
Remember your joys; &.......forget your sorrows.
The time to die is fast approaching. Thus labor and sorrow fill the world every passing moment. None of us were sent into the world to be idle. Our happiness [joy], depends upon the will of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
Teacher: For everything that happens in life—there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven:
2 A time to be born, a time to die;
a time to plant, a time to collect the harvest;
3 A time to kill, a time to heal;
a time to tear down, a time to build up;
4 A time to cry, a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, a time to dance;
5 A time to scatter stones, a time to pile them up;
a time for a warm embrace, a time for keeping your distance;
6 A time to search, a time to give up as lost;
a time to keep, a time to throw out;
7 A time to tear apart, a time to bind together;
a time to be quiet, a time to speak up;
8 A time to love, a time to hate;
a time to go to war, a time to make peace.
9 What good comes to anyone who works so hard, all to gain a few possessions? 10 I have seen the kinds of tasks God has given each of us to do to keep one busy, 11 and I know God has made everything beautiful for its time. God has also placed in our minds a sense of eternity; we look back on the past and ponder over the future, yet we cannot understand the doings of God. 12 I know there is nothing better for us than to be joyful and to do good throughout our lives."
Stay on your Life's Journey with Jesus...
it's a "Time worth Spent" one!
By Chrissy H.
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