Title: Make it the most precious moment
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Make it the most precious time (Ecclesiastes 3:11-15)
One of the most equitable things in the world is time. He gave everyone 24 hours. This was given 24 hours a day, regardless of the rich or poor, men/women, children/adults, educated/uneducated, president/shopkeeper, American/Korean.
For everyone, time is 24 hours a day, which is irreversible and time does not repeat itself. Whether it's a good watch or a cheap watch, it goes the same way. Even if you hide the time, forget it, or even if all the clocks in the house break, the time that flows is the same. There is nothing more fair than this in the world.
However, it is fair time, but how you use that time is different. People who use it use and experience that time in different ways. Today's Word verses 2-8 contrasts 28 things, 14 things people like and expect, 14 things people hate and don't want, among the things that humans experience when they meet time. Depending on the person, these times may feel long or short. Some people have very happy times and some have unhappy times depending on the person. Depending on the person, I live with gratitude and sometimes with regret.
Even biblically, the word time has two different meanings. One is Chronos, which is a fixed quantity of time, and the other is Kairos, which lives in quality.
Today's book of Ecclesiastes teaches 28 ways of living the life given by Kronos and the kairos spiritual life that can be lived in it. In the midst of this, in Ecclesiastes, accepting the time given and using that time wisely, we are told to live a valuable, meaningful, rewarding and happy life.
The average person would jump when someone asks for $1,440 each of them. In fact, it is difficult for us to give it with 144 dollars. I can't even give you 14. However, there are many people who easily throw away the 1,440 minutes a day, and there are many people who simply give it to others. We really need to know when and how precious time is.
Everyone, even for us now, the set time is passing by. Although passing, this time is also the most precious gift God has given us. Therefore, the rest of your life should not be just wasted time, but should be lived preciously and preciously. Today in Ecclesiastes, it is said that there is a time for everything. What is the most precious time for us? What kind of life is the most precious time in our lives in the sight of God? What is a truly rewarding and meaningful time when there is no regret and no regrets?
1. Let's see the time with gratitude in our hearts.
What we need to remember is that whenever we see evil people doing well, we should know that in the end it will be our own harm. If you see suffering as a saint, you must believe that you are being rescued from something worse through those sufferings. There are many things that God does that we do not understand, but we must firmly believe in God's faithfulness and goodness.
In this belief, the saints will discover that even things to complain about are things to be thankful for when looking back. This is what the text shows.
Text) God made all things and made them beautiful in their seasons (11a)
“He made all things” - The Lord also made all of my life.
It is God who is in control of the time I am living right now.
If you are a believer, you must believe in this fact, that God exists and that God is governed even in the times and times in which we are living. It's not that I'm just living my life randomly.
As we believe this, we know that a loving God has a plan for and for me in me.
“He is the God who works in you, to will and to do for his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).
It makes me think about what will be accomplished in me, and when will the God who loves me accomplish it through me.
It's not just this. God's plan continues despite my problems, my hardships, and my difficulties.
When we believe in this, our hearts will be changed with gratitude above all else. That's right. The believer must accept all the circumstances of the present with thanksgiving before the Lord again.
1 Timothy 4:4 “Nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving” “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Jesus for you (1 Thessalonians 5:19)”
we need to know Gratitude is the secret to making flowers bloom all year round!
Of course, it's easy to be grateful when my circumstances are good. But even in all circumstances, circumstances, and difficult times, the saints should use them as a time of thanksgiving!
Nevertheless, it must be received with trust, faith, and thanksgiving toward God.
Application) Even in difficult situations! Even if it's hard! May I be able to say thank you!
These words: “A person without thanksgiving has no hope toward God. Because God no longer pours grace and blessings on those who do not have gratitude. ”
Everyone, believe that grace and blessings are filled in the vessels of a grateful heart!
Then, when you see the world with gratitude, you can see it happily! You can live in an era with no regrets, you can see cottages, palaces, and heaven! I hope you can restore this kind of gratitude!
2. Now let's look at the time with the eyes of faith.
(Verse 11) And he has given man a heart for eternity. But he has made it impossible for men to measure the work of God from beginning to end.
In the text, it is said that what God does is “impossible to measure with man”. So the people of the world do not know the future, are afraid, and frustrated, and try in vain to find the store manager.
But God is the one who shows us as saints and children. Even if you don’t know everything that will happen in the future, He makes you know the secret to having the most blessed time of your life. He will give you the wisdom to count the days.
It is living in the Lord. So Augustine said, "There is no rest until you are in the Lord."
To do this, we must make this time the most spiritually holy time. That way, you will have a time that you will never regret.
If you do not have the richness, fullness, and vitality of your faith, you will eventually regret it.
The conviction of my faith is that the time when my faith is the most abundant is the time when the ministry is the most abundant. - The time when my faith is the most abundant is the time when my family and those around me overflow with grace the most. That's right. The two hearts of the saints who received grace really regret the past. And you will try to live a life that is truly pleasing to the Lord. From now on, we will become saints and children who care about how to please the Lord.
Look at Peter. When Jesus was arrested, he denied Jesus three times, even in front of a little girl. However, after meeting the risen Lord, realizing the power of the cross, and restoring grace, he says:
Acts 4:19 “And Peter and John answered and said, Judge whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God.”
A believer is a person who has met Jesus with the eyes of faith and is living in this time with Jesus.
I hope that the fragrance of faith that blooms in full bloom spreads to all your family and neighbors as you receive the rain of grace. Pascal, a French mathematician and thinker, experienced the living God one day, and that night he was so ecstatic that he said, "Oh, the God of Abraham! The God of Isaac! The God of Jacob!" He confessed over and over again. That God was not an idea made up of a logical system of philosophy. He was the living God. Since then, Pascal's life has changed dramatically. From then on, his purpose in life was not to be a philosophical or socialist. It was to make the living God known to the people of that time. The reason Pascal's 'Pangse' is evaluated as such a precious book even today is because it speaks of the living God. Are you now? Open your eyes of faith and live with the heart of Jesus. Therefore, at this very moment,
It is time to fulfill the mission given to me. There are 28 times in today's text, but we have done more than that. Now, if there is one thing to do, it remains to live to please the Lord.
It is time to make a decision for the Lord and live diligently in the Word, prayer, service, almsgiving, etc., without delaying the present opportunity given to me. Everyone, never procrastinate and live for the Lord. If you avoid it, you will never regret it.
The text teaches. In the text, when it is born, when it dies, when it is planted, when it is uprooted, ``` various times are listed. But at all times, “There is a time for everything under the heavens, and there is a time for every purpose to be fulfilled” (verse 1).
The text speaks of many times - it's not that the time will come to me someday, it's that each of us should handle the given time well. I have a mission to work hard at all the tasks given to me right now.
In the text, the Lord gave Solomon's confession "a heart longing for the soul". In short, living for our souls is the greatest reward and joy.
I hope that the following Spurgeon's confession will be your confession. I love only Jesus and His cross, and I solemnly pledge to dedicate my whole life to expanding His will and going the way He pleases. With only one purpose in mind, the purpose of glorifying God. O Lord, help me to honor You and live the life of Christ while I live on earth!"