a time for everything

Ecclesiastes 3

A Time for Everything

1 For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven.

2 A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.


3 A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.


4 A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.


5 A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.


6 A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.


7 A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.


8 A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do people really get for all their hard work? 10 I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

12 So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

14 And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him. 15 What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.

The Injustices of Life

16 I also noticed that under the sun there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt! 17 I said to myself, “In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds.”

18 I also thought about the human condition—how God proves to people that they are like animals. 19 For people and animals share the same fate—both breathe^[a] and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless! 20 Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust. 21 For who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth? 22 So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why we are here! No one will bring us back from death to enjoy life after we die.

i've listen to message for twice by erwin mcmanus. first time doesn't impact me so much and yesterday night was the second time i heard him in our church. doesn't know why this time it makes much more sense to me and makes me reading back few times for the passage. really loving it.

'The Beauty of a Tradegy'

this passage says about a time for everything. a lot of time what we facing in life whether good or bad , god has his purpose. especially when we are facing our giants ; god said he makes everything beautiful out of it. because we always sees things the way it is ; we can't acknowledge the beauty of god allows to go through. we are blinded by the circumstances.

erwin mcmanus mentioned we are meant to go through difficulties, hurt, grief, disappointment and etc in life. think about it ; it will make sense to you. if life always been so well and going through without storms you wouldn't be excited and looking forward for the next day. through all the storms ; we are growing also learn to acknowledge god's existence , his power in our life. i think it makes sense to me also because i did went through all these thing to build me up for who am i today.

a time to destroy and a time to build. a time to cry and a time to laugh. a time to to be sad and a time to dance. life is always fill with colors !!!

i think i read it somewhere or what i just forgot it about it suddenly. if says something like what happen in the past, present and future ; god already knows about it. it not something surprises god. also whatever happen now had happen before. i really can't remember where i read it but it's really good. that phrases explain much more better than me.

whatever season everyone is going through ; hope we face it strongly and overcome it by god's strength and power. everything has its reason and its season. let us learn together the see the BEAUTY OF A TRADEGY together. don't also indulge in the tradegy but see outside the box.