Recently, I read two scriptures that greatly encouraged me. The first one comes from Ecclesiastics that says God makes all things beautiful in it’s time (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Have you ever been waiting for something to happen and became a bit impatient or even wavered a bit in faith wondering if you heard God correctly on what he promised you?
In those moments, we sometimes just need the reassurance of God’s word again to remind us that he has not forgotten about us. Ecclesiastes 3 talks about how there are specific times to each season in our lives. I’m sure we’ve all heard the scriptures before. There is a time for everything:
“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. ” Ecclesiastes 3:2-8
The references to timing and seasons are concluded in the verse below:
“What do workers gain from their toil. I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He makes all things beautiful in it’s time (Ecclesiastics 3:9-11). “
Maybe, I am wrong, but I can only glean from this that no matter how much we try to work for some things and assure that they will come to pass on our own accord, sometimes we just have to let go and trust God’s timing to bring everything together in a beautiful manner in the season that he has ordained for us. After all that is how we want things to happen in our season done God’s way. That is the only way that we know things will be blessed. Finally, the other scripture that I read tonight comes from Psalms 125:1 that reads Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever. Our faith and trust ought to be so strong and solid in the Lord that just like a mountain cannot be moved, we are not shaken in our faith and trust in God. We should not be shaken by what we see nor what we don’t see. I pray that our faith rests in the Lord and we are encouraged as we trust in him for everything. Everyone doesn’t understand the process that it takes for a flower to shoot up from the ground in it’s season, but no one can deny the beauty of it once it’s season comes. What if that flower represented everything that we believed God for in our lives. Keep on trusting in the Lord.
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