https://odb.org/MY/2022/06/10/time-enough
If you read Ecclesiastes 3, you will see that there is a time for everything – whether it is to be born or die, to uproot or plant, to kill or heal, to teardown or build, to weep or laugh, to mourn or dance, to search or give up, to scatter or gather and many more. There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the sun. But the clincher is that God will make everything beautiful in His time. As Paul declared in Romans 8:28, we know that God will work all things good for those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose and I have shared before from the pulpit that “good” there is that despite all that had happened, we will be able to remain true and faithful to Him and His plans and purposes for our lives. We can be like Job or Joseph or Paul or even Christ – we will remain true right to the very end!
God has set eternity in our hearts and thus besides focusing on the things that count for eternity, we should know that for God to make everything beautiful in His time could mean, for some of us, that we will only see the beauty for everything when eternity sets in. Like the parable of the beggar in Luke 16:19-31 who longed to eat off the crumbs that fell off the rich man’s table and who was at Abraham’s side after he died compared to the rich man who was at Hades who just wanted a drop of water to quench his thirst.
I think the message this morning is that although some things may only be beautiful to us when eternity sets in (God promised to make all things beautiful in His time), we must fiercely and fearfully guard our path to eternal life to make sure that we will be on Abraham’s side and not end up on the wrong side of eternity. God has set eternity in the hearts of man, so let’s set our eyes on the things that matter for eternity!
Ronnie's Thoughts 