Ears to Hear and Eyes to See DevotionaI - Rev Robin Spada
I love October’s vibrant colors throughout the landscape, short-lived yet glorious. October always reminds me of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8: A Time for Everything:
1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
When you go to verse 11 it reads: He hath made everything beautiful in His time.
Love this! Ecclesiastes is sharing with us the inevitable in this life, but then promises us that in God’s time He makes EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL!
What is God’s Time? It is not constrained by this earth’s time, just ask Joshua when he needed an extra hour and was given a 25-hour day (Joshua 10)! It does not expire according to our time, just ask Abraham and Sarah at 100 & 90 years old giving birth to Isaac (Gen 17)!
Abraham and Sarah laughed in scorn when they were told they would have Isaac at the age of 90 & 100. They had expected it to happen for years holding on to the promise. They knew they ran out of time, but didn’t understand they didn’t run out of God’s time! By faith they received on God’s time their Isaac (meaning joyful laughter).
What promise, problem, season are you needing God’s touch? His touch makes all things beautiful in His time! As we give our lives to Him, surrender all to Him, trust His love and follow His direction, we will see His beauty come forth.
Love & Prayers, Rev. Robin Spada