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Ecclesiastes 3:8 says there’s a time to love and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. The first verse says there is a season for everything and a time for every purpose under heaven.
We have to ask ourselves “whose purpose” is it talking about. Of course, it is God who planned this world and determines when these things take place. There is a time to be born again, but the soul that sins will die. The gospel seed is sown everywhere and the time will come when it will be harvested. Then we die to ourselves and the Lord builds us up; we wept because of our sin and laughed when grace took it away.
We mourn for the lost but dance when they are found. We used to throw “stones” at those we were at odds with but Jesus changed all that in Matthew 5:44. Now we’re supposed to love and pray for those that abuse us. Jesus said, “Forgive them, Father, because they know not what they do”. So we embrace the plight of the sinner but not their sin.
We spend much time in this life “getting”, working for money and position. But there is a time to give it all up for the sake of Christ. There is a time to keep His Word close to our hearts but in due time we must cast it out on the water.
Sowing seed, watering it, and working the harvest; that’s all their is to do.