ESOCS Devotional 27 December
TEXT: ECCLESIASTES 3:1-13
MEMORY VERSE: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV
In our text today, we view a world of order, which points to the fact that God has all things under control. There is an expression of a divine order of things into which one must plug his life in order to make for full contentment. There is a time to be born, and a time to die, and God, as part of His creative ingenuity, established the natural process of procreation, in order that man will reproduce and replace himself, since no man in his physical body can live forever. The same principle applies to animals, plants, and everything under the sun.
There are also significant periods in one’s personal life, which necessarily need be conformed to, in order to make the best of every opportunity that comes one’s way. Even when we go through difficult times in life, there is always the tendency, as believers, to confess that our times are in God’s hands (Ps. 31:15). God Himself also wants us to make the most out of each opportunity that presents before us (Eph. 5:16), even as Himself is working and moving time towards the final days of this present system – the acclaimed Day of the Lord (Amos 5:18).
The history of Salvation advances from the Old Testament to the New Testament, from Promise to Fulfilment, ending with the Return of Christ and the Final Judgment. There is actually no clear understanding as to the exact sequence of the events of the last days, as prophesied. But the Bible talks about The Rapture (1 Thess. 4:17), The Great Tribulation (Rev. 14), The Millennium (Rev. 20:2), etc.
Most important to note here is that time is of essence under the sun, and God has set aside a day of salvation.
Read yesterday’s ESOCS Devotional here
CHALLENGES
If you agree that it is a world ordered by order, how orderly is your life?
PRAYER POINT
Lord Jesus, help my life to be ordered by the divine order. Amen.
FURTHER READING: Ecclesiastes 5:1-9; Luke 4:1-12; 4:13-20
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ESOCS Devotional 27 December
