Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in images, song and lyrics from an anonymous duo singing … For Everything A Season … poignantly singing from Ecclesiastes 3 that there is a time for everything in life.
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Highlight Passage : … Ecclesiastes 3:11 [ESV] ... 11 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.
… God teaches us that He has put eternity in our hearts, and not our heads, so that we can experience all things in life in the context of our trusting relationship with the Lord.
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Highlight Passage [context] : … Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, “the Teacher,” explains that the Lord has a time and a place in our lives for all that we experience.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… God teaches, thru Solomon, that we must trust God in all things … at all times in our lives.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [ESV] ... 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
… God, thru Paul, encourages us to realize the truth that all things in the life of true, born again, Christians are for our good and His glory.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 4:11-13 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Paul had learned to be content in all things because of his trusting relationship with Christ.
Reference Passage : … 1Peter 5:6-7 [ESV] ... 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.
… Peter exhorts fellow Christs to take all our anxieties to our caring/loving and grace-giving God, Who will exalt us in HIS WAY and in HIS TIMING.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Poh Fang Chia, AT THIS LINK writes of the poetry of a Chinese writer who realized, while gazing at a full moon (see photo), that he and his brother, who was thousands of miles distant from him, could see that sight, created by God, at the same time, giving them both a simultaneous glimpse of God’s glory.
And then the ODB author made reference to the poetic teaching from God, thru Solomon, in Eccles. 3:1-11, that there is a time in the seasons of our life for all things, which are all under the scope and control of God. And this truth called my mind to several other truths from God’s word (see reference passages), which show that we can - AND MUST - learn to accept ALL THINGS in the scope of God’s timing and His control.
And I pray today that all reading here have learned, as did Solomon and the Apostles Paul and Peter, that we must trust God (Prov 3:5-6) that all things are - IN TRUTH - for our good (Rom 8:28); and that we must be content (Phil 4:11-13) that our loving/caring God will take care of us in His timing and His way (1Pet 5:5-6).
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for being there ALWAYS for our good and Your glory.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to trust that God is ALWAYS working things out in our lives for His good purposes. Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.</ span>
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