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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

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