RTW June 6

Women of Discernment

For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1

 

 

My Takeaways

Something Old

Season: a set time, appointed time, time

Purpose: delight, pleasure, desire, longing

There is a season [set, appointed time] and a time [for every event, experience, occurrence, and occasion] to every purpose. [delight, pleasure, desire, longing]

Something New

Discernment

  • to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend:
  • to distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different; discriminate:

Something to Do

Be  a woman of discernment in accepting assignments.

 

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  1. My Takesways: Stop looking under the sun, gaze above the sun!

    Something Old: Ecclesiastics 3:1-6
    The Byrds turned these words into a song. Who would have thought something written before Christ, would become the number one song years after Jesus’s death. So I figured these verses were very appropriate for something old. ; -) A lot of truth in those words. Everything does have its time (season). I need to accept and appreciate God’s perfect timing.

    Something New: “I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 4:7). Solomon uses the phrase “under the sun” at least twenty-nine times throughout the book of Ecclesiastes to describe life  here on earth. This phrase to me was worth diving into. Solomon lived 900 years before Christ. How blessed I am to live on the other side of Christ. Even with all his wisdom Solomon didn’t have what I have – the New Testament. He only had a very limited number of books from the Old Testament. So Solomon wrote from his perspective which was from “under the sun.” Solomon was not aware of the promise of eternal life for the followers of Christ. When I view life from “above the sun,” from God’s perspective, that life makes sense. He has redeemed my time through Jesus Christ and given me life filled with meaning and purpose in Him. From man’s perspective, death is the end. From God’s perspective, death is the beginning. I like the way Zach Eswine, writes it in Rediscovering Eden: The Gospel according to Ecclesiastes “Ecclesiastes seems like one of God’s ways to say to us, This world and your life are more broken than you now realize and what God created for us is more satisfying than we believe. Like Adam and Eve, we too still strive for things out there and damage ourselves in the process all the while God’s gift and presence were right in front of us.”

    Something To Do: Pursue Jesus who gives me meaning for life. Live with eternal values in view, realizing that all contradictions will one day be cleared up by the Creator himself. Prepare for eternity-look above the sun and see what God has for me.

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