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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend, 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.
What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
In the poem of our text, there is a beautiful literary convention. There are fourteen pairs, which is twice biblical number of perfection and completion, additionally the list covers the whole sweep of human experience for birth to death and everything in between. This speaks powerfully to how God sees our lives. He sees perfectly and completely how each part of our lives fit together and in turn how our individual lives fit into the grand scheme of things. As our text says “he has made everything beautiful in its time.” —
Continued in the newsletter.
Faithfully, Pastor Greg