Ears to Hear - (Part 18)

Good Morning,

    For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven...Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.  He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end (Eccles. 3:1,11).  Have you been feeling like your time for "beautiful" is past due?  The good news is that we all have an appointed time for "everything made beautiful."  Season denotes a certain time, a due time.  Galatians 6:9 says, "And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint."  In farming and in gardening, harvest times come at varying times for different reasons: climate, altitude and diversified temperatures.  Where you live, whether in the valley, the plains or mountainous regions, will also determine your due season.  There are other things that factor in the equation of "due season": like the supply of water and the sun.  In this verse the words "grow weary", mean to give in to evil, or to let something bad defeat you.  It carries the idea of surrendering or giving in to bad circumstances.  The word faint means to loosen up, relax, to lack courage and become spiritless, to be feeble or have dizziness or blurred vision.

    That is not us, we are not cowards, weak or fainthearted.  Neither do we give into evil and we are never defeated.  "The wicked flees when no one pursues them, but the righteous are as bold as a lion." (Prov. 28:1).  "Mark the perfect man [the blameless, the honest and the righteous] and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace." (Psalm 37:37)  Another translation says, "look at the righteous one, for a wonderful future awaits them."  We are learning to be content (satisfied to the point where we are not disturbed or disquieted) in whatever state we are in.  Phil 4:12,13 says, "I know how to be abased and live humbly in straightened circumstances, and I know how to enjoy plenty and live in abundance.  I have learned in any and all circumstances the secret of facing every situation, whether well-fed or going hungry, having a sufficiency and enough to spare or going without and being in want {here is the secret; let's say it together}.  I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self sufficient in Christ's sufficiency].

Love,

Pastor D.

Comments

[Sandra]

You have been blessed with so many wonderful gifts.

Your eloquent expression of words that flow freely from your heart is proof the Lord works through you to be the voice of God.

Thank you so very much!