Skip to main content

A Time for Everything



So I really struggle with timing. I want things now and God has not planned to give those things to me now. I've been struggling with one thing in particular for quite a while now. I'll almost get over (around, through) it, and then all of the sudden I'm dealing with it in a whole new way. No matter how many times God speaks to me about this, I still come back to struggle again and again.

A friend once told me that we go through the same trials over and over because there is something God has left to teach us. While this may be true, I think sometimes it is my own pigheadedness and stubbornness that causes me to struggle over and over.

Yesterday, as I was struggling, I felt God lead me to some Scripture that I have read countless times. It is wonderful in the truth that it speaks. I just can't seem to grasp it in both my heart and my head. I know in my head, but I can't seem to get it to spread to my heart.

Anyway, here is the Scripture that God led me to if you haven't already guessed it.


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.
(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV)

Even in the struggles and storms of life, God is working. It is a time that He has planned out for you before you were even born. I hope that you can find some encouragement from God in this.

Thanks for reading.

In God, Emily

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Living the Life

A couple months ago I was wearing a t-shirt that my mom got me at a Beth Moore conference we attended last year.  If you are not familiar with Beth Moore, her ministry is called Living Proof Ministries.  The t-shirt said, "I'm living proof." I had someone come up to me and ask what it said.  Then she asked what I was living proof of. Her question threw me off guard. What am I living proof of? I stammered out an answer.  Something along the lines of, "I'm living proof of God working in my life." That answer was not necessarily wrong. But as a mature Christian, why did I not have an answered prepared?  I knew what the shirt said.  I should have been ready to answer such a question.   As Christians, we wear certain things, such as our "Christian" t-shirts, or we act certain ways or do certain things, like praying before we eat.  We should be ready to give a reason for any of these things at any moment. The bible tells us to, " p...
Post a Comment
Read more

Waiting through the Night

I'm going through a bible study with a couple of friends.  This bible study led us to Exodus 14, which is where God leads Moses to part the Red Sea for the Israelites to flee from the Egyptians. I love how the Holy Spirit works and draws out different parts of the scriptures at different times in our lives.  Before I began studying, I prayed that God would show me something, that He would meet me right there in His Word. Exodus 14:15-31 (ESV, emphasis mine) 15 The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16     Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel    may go through the sea on dry ground. 17 And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that           they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his           horsemen. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Stars in the Sky

This post came together from a lesson I taught this past week at our women's night at church.  God really used this to speak to me, and I pray that He does the same for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you guys ever noticed that the world rushes through things and rarely gives you the whole picture?  I think this is very evident in our news these days.  They shout out catchy headlines but rarely back them up with complete (and true) stories.  Most of what we see are really just that, stories.  Stories that have been filled with fluff. Listen to what God said to Isaiah in chapter 46:8-13 (ESV):  “Remember this and stand firm,      recall it to mind,   you transgressors, 9       remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other;      I am God, and ther...
Post a Comment
Read more