It seems so many things are seasonal down here... maybe just to remind us that home isn't here...
Our hearts were created for eternity... permancency... but we just see restless decay and change and death.
In His Sovereignty, God has arranged seasons and declared them to exist. Ecclesiastes seems to me to be a book which answers the unanswerable. It's wisdom is profound... I think it silences questions you may have. Maybe it captures an element of mystery that some other wisdom literature just doesn't have so much.
Ecclesiastes 3 - A Time for Everything.
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.
Later in the book it is declared the godly man knows both judgement and time.
We are taught to "tell the time" when we are young but we must learn through experience how to "tell the time" in this sense.
Lost in the mystery.
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