Ecclesiastes 3:1-22.
Ecclesiastes 3.1-22
Everything Has Its Time
"Everything on earth has its own time and its own season. There is a
time for birth and death, planting and reaping, for killing and
healing, destroying and building, for crying and laughing, weeping and
dancing, for throwing stones and gathering stones, embracing and
parting. There is a time for finding and losing, keeping and giving,
for tearing and sewing, listening and speaking. There is also a time
for love and hate, for war and peace.
What God Has Given Us To Do
What do we gain by all of our hard work? I have seen what difficult
things God demands of us. God makes everything happen at the right
time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he
puts questions in our minds about the past and the future. I know the
best thing we can do is to always enjoy life, because God's gift to
us is the happiness we get from our food and drink and from the work
we do. Everything God has done will last forever; nothing he does can
ever be changed. God has done all this, so that we will worship him.
Everything that happens has happened before, and all that will be has
already been- God does everything over and over again.
The Future Is Known Only to God
Everywhere on earth I saw violence and injustice instead of fairness
and justice. So I told myself that God has set a time and a place for
everything. He will judge everyone, both the wicked and the good. I
know that God is testing us to show us that we are merely animals.
Like animals we breathe and die, and we are no better off than they
are. It just doesn't make sense. All living creatures go to the same
place. We are made from earth, and we return to the earth. Who really
knows if our spirits go up and the spirits of animals go down into the
earth? We were meant to enjoy our work, and that's the best thing we
can do. We can never know the future."
God bless you.
Everything Has Its Time
"Everything on earth has its own time and its own season. There is a
time for birth and death, planting and reaping, for killing and
healing, destroying and building, for crying and laughing, weeping and
dancing, for throwing stones and gathering stones, embracing and
parting. There is a time for finding and losing, keeping and giving,
for tearing and sewing, listening and speaking. There is also a time
for love and hate, for war and peace.
What God Has Given Us To Do
What do we gain by all of our hard work? I have seen what difficult
things God demands of us. God makes everything happen at the right
time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he
puts questions in our minds about the past and the future. I know the
best thing we can do is to always enjoy life, because God's gift to
us is the happiness we get from our food and drink and from the work
we do. Everything God has done will last forever; nothing he does can
ever be changed. God has done all this, so that we will worship him.
Everything that happens has happened before, and all that will be has
already been- God does everything over and over again.
The Future Is Known Only to God
Everywhere on earth I saw violence and injustice instead of fairness
and justice. So I told myself that God has set a time and a place for
everything. He will judge everyone, both the wicked and the good. I
know that God is testing us to show us that we are merely animals.
Like animals we breathe and die, and we are no better off than they
are. It just doesn't make sense. All living creatures go to the same
place. We are made from earth, and we return to the earth. Who really
knows if our spirits go up and the spirits of animals go down into the
earth? We were meant to enjoy our work, and that's the best thing we
can do. We can never know the future."
God bless you.
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