As part of my daily devotions, I am reading through the book of Ecclesiastes. Yesterday, I came across the famous verses we all know in chapter 3:1-12.
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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.
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.
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;"
Solomon is telling us that change happens as part of God's timing and we as believers must be joyful and continue to do good. I could inject any number of trite expressions here, but I think you get the point.
For the Christian musician, God's timing often means moving from place to place and church to church. Wherever God needs you and leads you. I am at one of those crossroads now and I must press on, always moving according to what he has planned and not what I have planned. Right now that means leaving Mountain View Baptist Church and putting more time into The Matt and Buck project. It is all for the glory of God so let's make it happen. Perhaps next month God will put me somewhere else, but that is just another season in God's eternal plan for the Baptist Baritone.
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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.
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.
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;"
Solomon is telling us that change happens as part of God's timing and we as believers must be joyful and continue to do good. I could inject any number of trite expressions here, but I think you get the point.
For the Christian musician, God's timing often means moving from place to place and church to church. Wherever God needs you and leads you. I am at one of those crossroads now and I must press on, always moving according to what he has planned and not what I have planned. Right now that means leaving Mountain View Baptist Church and putting more time into The Matt and Buck project. It is all for the glory of God so let's make it happen. Perhaps next month God will put me somewhere else, but that is just another season in God's eternal plan for the Baptist Baritone.
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