"Waiting for God's Timing"(Ecclesiastes 3:1-15)

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

 God is able in everything and reigns over everything. We can all agree with this statement, but we have to remember that this really does mean everything in our lives as well. In Ecclesiastes when the author talks about there is a time to plant and a time to uproot, he is talking about what God is doing through us. God's creation duties continue today, and He uses us in this continuation of creation.

Sometimes we might put all our effort into some project which doesn't amount to much. However, in God's timing, the project can end successfully and quickly. We need to wait for God's timing if we are going to be successful and not rush a conclusion that God has not given.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV

God has put an eternity in our heart. As Christians, we understand that our life will be eternally lived out in Heaven with Jesus.

In the world, before death, everything is meaningless. In fact, compared to death, all other problems are nothing. Yet, for Christians, death is not the end for us. In fact, it is a new start for for those who believe and follow Jesus.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 ESV

Knowing that we have an eternity in front of us, there is no need for us to fear death like non-Christians.

What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 3:9-10 ESV

Man has a burden with work. Yet God has given us a gift.

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good if they live; also, that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 ESV

God wants us to work. Yes, we have to work hard to survive, but God provides a way for us to be blessed.  So why do some suffer so much? Because we live in a broken world, we have hardships in we work. Nevertheless, God allows us to find satisfaction in our work and the ability to overcome our work.

The last thing we must remember is that God gave his Son so that we would be blessed.

I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 ESV

Jesus did not come to punish the world, but he came to save all of us. His main point of His ministry was to bring the new kingdom to Earth. He came to save wicked people.  He came to bring bad people over to the God. He came to bring salvation to any who would confess their sin and put their faith in Him to save them.

Worrying about the future does not help. We don't know what the future will bring, but we can find comfort that God allow events in our lives to happen because it was best for us. It might not seem like that at the time when problems happen, but eventually it will be best for us. Let us put our trust in God and understand that all things happen for a reason in a season.