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Ecclesiastes 3: Finding Comfort in Life’s Seasons
In this episode, we explore the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes chapt… (visit YouTube for more)
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Oh, I can’t tell you how much I love Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 1. For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven.
There’s such wisdom in this verse, isn’t there? I’ve applied this throughout my life. When I’ve been in circumstances that I found unpleasant or uncomfortable, I recognise that it’s a season. And seasons change and seasons pass and God takes us through different seasons of life.
Some seasons, like for me right now, include profound grief and there is a season for that. But there’s also a season for joy. God has so ordained that everything sits in its proper place in his universe. There is a time for all things that need to be done in accordance with God’s will to be done.
And even though it may look like this world is falling apart, it’s chaotic, things are happening that shouldn’t be happening, we can be reassured that God’s judgment is one of those things that will happen when it’s due time. That God’s healing will happen when it’s time. That God’s restoration of all things will happen will happen when it is time.
I don’t know what season you’re going through, my friend. It may be good, bad, or kind of meh, but please understand and accept that all seasons pass. And ultimately, when we get to the end of all our seasons, the new season begins. The season of living eternally with God.
There may be seasons even then. But one thing that won’t change is that we will be in blissful communion with Him, able to worship Him without constraint, able to enjoy the recreated heavens and earth, that no longer labour under the curse of sin and death. For everything, there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven.
