Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
As we read the writings of “The Preacher” whom most believe to be Solomon the son of King David, we find a diamond in the scriptures. I personally love to study about our Sovereign Lord. The sovereignty of God makes me thrill to my bones and make my heart shout with joy. God is so wonderful and much more so when He declares His sovereignty. When the “preacher” penned the word “season” he was speaking of God doing all things according to the council of His own will or God’s Sovereign Will. Ephesians 1:11 "...being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" The word “seasons” here means – an appointed occasion – whether it be of time, an event, or a person, everything functions according to God’s purpose and will. In verses 2-8 we see the word “times” used 28 times. We see it used 14 times arranged in pairs of opposites, for example “A time to be born, and a time to die” Now let us look at this in a proper prospective; everything (without exception) has a purpose and a season or appointed time. Whether it is birth or death, to plant or to pluck up, a time to mourn and a time to dance, and etc, etc, etc. No matter what it is God has in a sovereign way created it, appointed a time for it, and a time when it is to began and end. God has set the bounds and nothing can pass God’s bounds. God has said of man “Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Job 14:5 Man fails to realize that his days are numbered by God and when that number is accomplished that person will expire. What the “preacher” told us in Ecclesiastes 3 has a deeper meaning than man likes to admit, it says God controls everything in existence. Let’s use a very controversial subject as an example, “Climate Change”. Whether it exist or not doesn’t even matter, why not, you may ask, because we cannot pass the will and plan of God. Is the earth heating up? Well maybe it is or maybe it isn’t we all know that one day God is going to melt the earth with “fervent heat” "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (12.) Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” 2 Peter 3:10, 12 we often worry about things we cannot control. If we believe what the “preacher” wrote then we also see we cannot stop death. Death is appointed of God, he is the one who controls all life, He gave it and He can and will take it at His choosing. Why does God allow abortions? God has the power to stop abortions, He has the power to control the minds of those involved, but He allows it because He has a purpose in it, what it is; only God knows. God has the power to stop death, floods, natural disasters, and anything else but again He has a purpose in them all. While we look at it all as horrible, God sees it as beautiful because it is all done according to His blessed will and purpose. Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." We do not always see the blessedness of death, to us it us final and an end, but to God it is a beautiful thing. We do not know the mind of God nor do we know the plan of God, but be assured God knows because He is sovereign in all His ways. God hath appointed; not some events and things, but all events and things. Beloved when something happens it is better to recognize it as God’s blessed will and move on, but some have a problem with that, if so then maybe this scripture from the “preacher” will help. Ecclesiastes 3:14 "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."
