Saturday, October 13, 2007
enriched
Life seems to go on in phases, seasons at a time.
TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven.
A time for birth and a time for death, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted,
A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up,
A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
A time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away,
A time to rend and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak,
A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
... He has made everything beautiful in its time... planted eternity in men's hearts and minds... a divinely implanted sense of a purpose.
... I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].
-Ecclesiastes 3 (Amplified)
His Word is beautiful, and I am affirmed that He's working in me, changing me to who He wants me to be. What have I leaned? I learned that all that has happened, He has allowed to happen, all part of His divine plan (It's amazing how He's actually got every aspect of my life drafted out), and that I emerge a better man, a stronger man.
SelahCell last night was great, as always, but what really stood out was during the Word bit, where we were asked to shoutout reasons for walking closely with God, and scribble them down on a piece of vanguard we had in the middle of the group. It was then that I realised that with the 20 odd or so reasons we stated down, that there's just so many more reasons why we should maintain a close walk with God. I just wonder why I had not known sooner in my rebellious days, or when I had drifted far far away.
But I guess,
God has His timing...
6:50 PM |
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