3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
9 What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
(ESV)
Oh Lord, help me to perceive what each time is... what time today is, and not to worry too much about what kind of time tomorrow will be. Help me to live today in a beautiful and courageous way. Give me Your joy that can't be overcome. Help me to be faithful, today. Lord, give me courage and grace to accept whatever season I am in and see the changes from where you see them- a sure ground and safe place that never trembles. George MacDonald once said, 'The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to and the last duty done." Oh the sound of faithfulness. Let my life make such a sound.
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Sooo good KK. Thanks for sharing and I love your prayer.
Saturday night at Emerge Kelsey spoke on Galatians 6:9, 10 in the message, "So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit. Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith."
And yesterday He gave me Titus 3:14, "Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives."
Faithfulness.
Xoxo
Hey Little One!
You know what I think is interesting about those verses? Is that as Christians we choose to ignore HALF of what it says! Crazy but we like to focus on how God is about birth, planting, healing, building, laughing, dancing, embracing, seeking, sewing, keeping, speaking, loving and peace.
BUT the other half is also just as much who God is and there NEEDS to be time for those things just as much! Death, being plucked up, killing, breaking down, weeping, mourning, casting away, refraining, losing, tearing, silence, hate and war. Why do we see those as bad things and avoid them, when they are necessary and a time for them?
Just some thoughts on that.
Kim, we are totally tracking- that's so much of what He was speaking to me... the willingness to live where HE is in that moment, whether it's the time for silence, or the time to speak- to embrace, or to refrain, to weep, or to laugh, to plant or to uproot... Living in HARMONY with His timing, His ways, His absolute BEST ideas for the very moment i find myself standing in. :)
Love you sissy!
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