There is a time for everything

There is a time for everything

“To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

Another translation says “Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses.”  It is a most comforting scripture to know that our God is completely in control of all events in this world.  He has set his time for everything.  Waiting for the right time is exercising patience.  How difficult this could be at times.  Sometimes we are pressured to think that unless it happens now, it will be too late.  But scripture says that God’s salvation could never be late.  

Christ’s reaction to pressure and crisis is always calmness.  To the anxious plea:  ‘Come right now.   My child is dying’, or ‘O come before it is too late.”  His answer is always the same:  ‘I will come when I will come.’  Jesus lives the truth:   “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)