Ecclesiastes 3:1,11—There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Read todays devotion, A Time for Everything, from Meditations on Favorite Scriptures a daily devotional that focuses on the gospel promises of Jesus Christ. When God created the world, what’s the most amazing thing he invented? Let’s propose something you may not have considered before: God’s invention of time. Think about it. There was no time before God created the world. God himself is timeless. He lives in an eternal present. There really is no past or future for God. But when God created our world, he built “seasons and days and years” (Genesis 1:14) into it. As a result, the life of God’s world and our lives as individuals take place in time. One moment slips into the next; moments become days; days become years. And as our days and years slip by, we change, as do the circumstances of our lives. The changes time brings are so profound, says Solomon, that there’s a right time and a wrong time to do just about everything. There’s a time to plant tomato plants in your garden and a time to pull them up again. Loud laughter is fine at a wedding banquet, but it’s completely out of place at a funeral. Even taking a life can be the right thing to do at one time—for example in wartime—when at another time it’s a damnable sin. Often whether an action is appropriate or inappropriate depends on the situation. And the situation, in turn, depends on God. As one Christian explained, we’re like the characters in a novel and God is the author. God lives outside our story. We live inside it, and we must play whatever roles in the story the author assigns us. God has the entire story laid out in his mind so that he can see it all at one time. We go through life day by day, turning one page at a time, dealing with whatever arises. And like characters in a story, we’re helpless to know or change what’s coming next. We are utterly at our author’s mercy. That would be frightening if we didn’t know this author the way we do. But through Jesus Christ, we’ve come to know how deeply he loves us. Through Jesus Christ, God wrote himself into our story to save it—and us—from disaster. And in Christ, God promises to bring our story to an amazing, happy ending. Our loving Savior-God is in control of the times of our lives. That’s what makes them “beautiful”—the whole story and every page along the way. Prayer: Lord, my times are in your hands—and that’s exactly where I want them. Amen. From Meditations on Favorite Scriptures: Devotions for a Year, Edited by Curtis A. Jahn © 2007 Northwestern Publishing House. All rights reserved.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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