“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Ecclesiastes 3:1
I am primarily speaking to Christians, because the lost has
no spiritual understanding of God and His works. “But the natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness
unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14. The
lost soul has no idea who God is or how God does things. God said, lost people
are “…spiritually discerned.” meaning God’s work is like an unsolvable
puzzle and lost people cannot fit the pieces because they are spiritually dead
and cannot understand scripture. The things of God are unrealistic to them,
they do not fit their human logic. However, Christians are without excuse not
to study, pray, and accept the teachings of the bible. Most Christians just attend
church and accept what the teachers and Pastor teach without any study time of
the scriptures, this is a grave mistake. The Lord in speaking highly of the
church at Berea said this, “These (the church at Berea) were more noble than
those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of
mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things
were so.” Acts 17:11 This is where a lot of Christians fail to
understand God, they believe their teachers, but never study what they are
taught. Every real Christian that studies their bible on regular basis and
ask God for the commentary of the Word, the Holy Spirit will teach the Truth.
It is here that you will learn of God’s Sovereignty and just how much God has
ordained in our life. God said, “To every thing there is a season…” God
said, not to some things, not to a few things, but to all things there
is a season. The word “season” means - an appointed occasion: - season, time – meaning that God
has appointed everything in your life as it has pleased Him. However,
God did not stop there, He went on to say, “…and a time to every purpose
under the heaven:” So, God appointed, predetermined, or ordained, a time
and purpose to everything “under the heaven:”. Meaning nothing in
existence functions or exist on chance, but by the purpose, predetermined, will
of God. From the salvation of your soul to the fullness of your life. Also,
from the beginning to the end of the world are all ordained and predetermined
by God’s choosing. If you are the most powerful Christian in the world or the
weakest, you are what you are by God’s grace. Paul wrote, “But by the grace
of God I am what I am: - and his grace which was bestowed upon me was
not in vain; - but I laboured more abundantly than they all:
- yet not I,- but the grace of God
which was with me.” 1 Corinthians 15:10 (The dashes were added to show
the different study points in this verse so you can see the work of God in
Paul’s life and ministry, Paul was not to be credited, God was.) Paul wrote in Ephesians
3:7 “Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the
grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.”
Just as Jeramiah was ordained, called, and served by God’s predetermined will,
so is Paul and so are we. The more we learn and serve as Christians the
more God has blessed us to do His will. In Eph. 2:8 God said, “For by grace
are ye saved - through faith; - and that not of yourselves: - it is the gift of
God:” (again the dashes is to separate the different study points.) This is
to make us understand that God is Sovereign in gifting us with salvation.
However, God does not stop there read verse 10, “For we are his workmanship,
- created in Christ Jesus - unto good works, - which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them.” Here we see that God not only saved our
souls by His Sovereign ordained will and grace, but our entire life as
Christians are by His work of grace. Therefore, we must all conclude
just as the Apostle Paul did, “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and
his grace…” However, everything in existence, has it’s being, functions, even
lives and dies, by God’s appointed time. Ecclesiastes 3:1. From the beginning
of time to the end of time, everything is by God’s pre-ordained, His appointed
time and His will. People are not living by chance, luck, or “things just
happen”, The Sovereign God of creation ordained and controls everything. Therefore,
we must conclude that nothing has to make sense to you, nothing has to be
proven to you, the puzzle of life does not have to fit your thinking, God just
has to say it and it’s so. The natural person is “spiritually discerned.”
and will never understand God, therefore, God is the only one teaching absolute
truth, “…yea, let God be true, but every man a liar…” Romans 3:4 Read
- God’s word, Study – God’s word – Pray – for guidance from the
Holy Spirit – and Believe – what God says. We have a lot of wonderful
teachers and Pastors teaching the scriptures in this world, but not one is
infallible, only God is, therefore above all God is always to believed.
