"FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!"

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8                        (ESV)
"1 "FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON", and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace."



Many times in my life, and in my studies of life in general, I come across the premise that GOD is in control of life.  If I didn't believe that there would be so many things that we would have no explanation for.  There seems to be continuing evidence that no human entity, or being, has the intellect or wisdom to avoid what most would consider as "tragedy" in the lives?  If you accept the notion that somethings just happen by chance, then I will respect that.  But is there evidence that that train of thought might be flawed?

A number of years ago a friend of mine was working on the local police force.   A man shot at him from across a small room AND MISSED!  No one can give a reason for my friend to be alive today, but that was almost 40 years ago and he is in great health today!  My own doctors marvel at the fact that I survived the brain hemorrhage in 2007 with such amazing results.  When GOD intervenes we tend to call it a miracle.

But not everyone has results that are as pleasant to our earthly eyes.  My sister was as physically fit as anyone I knew.  One August she played on a coed softball team.  The day after Christmas of the same year she succumbed to cancer!  A dear friend of mine's wife is battling dementia, and she is only in her early fifties!  Another dear friend of mine was 37 years old when he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle and was killed.  Only yesterday, a friend lost his wife in her mid 40's from cancer.

"FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON" is not just a good metaphor we use when we don't have an answer to life's questions.  The Bible is the standard Believers cling to and trust in.  Unless we have FAITH that GOD is in control we will be relegated to trying to figure out why things happen when there is no earthly explanation for them?  GOD's ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9) and GOD IS IN CONTROL!   We must remember that "FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON"!!!