Those words were in a prayer I read yesterday in the devotional, ‘Our Daily Bread’. Amazing, the difference a day can make. One person gets a diagnosis, another is expecting a baby, the weather always changes, and our lives are up and down, again. At the end of King Solomon’s life he writes the Ecclesiastes and ends Chapter 12 with, “The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil”. I think it is nice to be caught doing the right thing. We fear being found out on those other days and God sees all. He has created a world and a rhythm. There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. In Chapter 3 King Solomon, very poetically lists them as opposites.
A time to – give birth, and a time to die; plant and uproot. Kill and heal; tear down and build up. Weep and laugh; mourn and dance. Throw stones and gather stones; embrace and shun embracing. Search and give up as lost; keep and throw away. Tear apart and sew together; be silent and speak. Love and hate; war and peace. We like one list more than the other but the rain falls on the just and the unjust so just do our best? A rollercoaster is a thrill ride that comes to an end. Our ride is over when we meet Jesus and Heaven will be surprising. I doubt that eternal life is such a bumpy ride. “He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken”, Isaiah 25:8.
