How do you spend your time? What season are you in? Is what you are experiencing going to last forever?
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV
So let me start with I had always thought this book of the bible was a Paul written thing (that was Ephesians). Wrong! It was Solomon and if you follow the Bible you are told he was the wisest man on earth. It doesn’t mean he had the best life while here on earth.
Isn’t that interesting all by itself? A man who essentially had it all still found the ability to mess things up and still God decided that what that man learned during his walk needed to be recorded and shared. So interesting.
Ecclesiastes 3 is one worth reading from the first word to the last. 3:1 is the one to burn into your memory bank. It’s the one that is profound. Something the teenage version of me could not understand, nor the twenty something. However, the thirty something version of me started to get it and I’ll say thirty years later from that version it is loud and proud!
A season for everything in this life. Our walk is “seasoned” and if we are lucky the master chef, God, has seasoned us well. That as you get to your reflection years you can look back and be content with it. If you are getting older and start looking back with anything that doesn’t help you be content I would highly recommend you deal with that.
Our journey with God is a rich one. God, for His reasons, pays attention to us, placed His Holy Spirit in us, and guides us if we let Him. He gave us free will and that’s the part where we can be very proud of what we do or feel a bit of shame for what we do or did.
The story of the rich person who couldn’t give up this world to find God’s is one that should place shivers down our spines. In that story that person was told by the “in the moment Jesus” to sell everything and follow Him. Not easy to do at all. I suppose some get this calling and do. Some don’t. I think fortunately Jesus doesn’t do an all or nothing approach to us. He takes us as we are and His goal seems fundamental to me. He wants us connected to the Father.
Many of us like to compare. We do this because we want to know how am I doing in comparison to some other measure. I kind of feel like God uses a handicapping system, like golf, in that you really are competing with yourself more than anyone else. The question is what kind of improvement in those areas needing that improvement have you had? Only you know for sure and God of course will be there willing to help you with that improvement.
I consider myself very fortunate because I got connected to God at a very young age. That doesn’t mean I have been deeply connected with Him all these years. It means, for God’s reason, He paid attention to me and help me navigate this life right up to today. As I grew older and wiser because of that guiding the clarity has increased. I don’t believe I have it figured out at all. I just know what I feel and it is indeed this feeling I wish to share with many others.
While there are seasons to our life and God is the master “seasoner” I sincerely hope that this season of your life you find a deeper and more rooted connection to our Heavenly Father. That you fully understand that the best and most important relationship you have in this walk is with God. That it is a relationship and you need to invest in it. Clearly, reading this is part of that investment. Keep on investing and the dividends will be many.
No matter what is happening in your life trusting in God’s process and knowing He cares about you despite what might be happening here at this time. That He has a plan and if you surrender to it, trust in it, and live through it when you come to the conclusion you will be at a place of being content and frankly what better place could their be? When that last breath is breathed you can rest knowing that your life mattered.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you for the verses in the Bible especially the ones that make their marks on us. Thank you for Solomon and the trials he had to live through that allowed such wisdom. Thank you for sharing that wisdom with us. Help us stay connected to you Father. Help us appreciate all you have done for us, will do with us, and what we can do in this world for you. Please keep us safe. Please keep our family and friends safe. Help us illuminate this world with your Spirit allowing more and more to appreciate the differences, follow Jesus, and model our lives the way He showed us. We pray all of this in the name of Jesus who is our Lord and Savior. Amen.
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