A Time for Everything

The Word tells us there is a time for everything.  "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heavens."  (Ecclesiastes 3:1)   Here is a Word which includes not some stuff, but everything.  When unwanted things come to us, we find it easy to moan and groan as we ask the ever present question, "Why?"  The truth is it is often an unanswerable question.  And, of course, there are those unquestionably good times which we wish would never end, but as all things do, they do end.    

No matter how long or short are our days on this earth, there is time for everything.  There is time for the good and there is time for the bad.  Even as there is sunshine and blue skies, so are there dark stormy clouds.  This is not some fatalistic, or pessimistic view of life, but one that speaks of the reality which touches us all.   

The constant in this world filled with ever changing circumstances is the constant nature of the God of creation.  He is in every present moment what He has always been and will always be.  He is faithful to love us and care for us.  He is faithful to make a way for us out of every trouble and He is faithful to share every joy which fills us.  He is with us, not some of the time, but always, even when we come to that moment filled with both joy and loss which takes us from the roads of this life into the pathways of eternity.