“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time
to be born and a time to die,
a time
to plant and a time to uproot,
a time
to kill and a time to heal,
a time
to tear down and a time to build,
a time
to weep and a time to laugh,
a time
to mourn and a time to dance,
a time
to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time
to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time
to search and a time to give up,
a time
to keep and a time to throw away,
a time
to tear and a time to mend,
a time
to be silent and a time to speak,
a time
to love and a time to hate,
a time
for war and a time for peace.”
Ecclesiastes 3:2-8.History if nothing else has shown us that the writer of Ecclesiastes is right. I also believe there is a time coming when God will judge each and every individual.
The Apostle Paul speaking in Athens gave this message ,that is as relevant today as it was when he spoke it. The book of acts records,
“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”
At that, Paul left the Council.
A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.”
Acts 17:22-34.
You dear reader and the people today must make the same choice the people of Athens had to make.
Please think about it.
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