Ecclesiastes 3:-1-22
A Time for Everything
1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
15 Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.
16 And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
17 I said to myself,
“God will bring into judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.”
18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Jesus Saves us from Sin
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Matthew 6:5-15
The LORD'S Prayer
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Perhaps their are coincidences, and just maybe there are no coincidences...Perhaps everything that happens in the world just happens to happen, yet maybe again it happens for a reason...Maybe there is a reason for things that happen and maybe there is not...King Solomon believed that there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens...It does not specifically address the issue if God causes all things to happen the way they happen...But Solomon tries to give us reasons for the things that he has seen happen...Solomon does say that he has seen the burden God has laid on the human race....God has made everything beautiful in its time...God has set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end...So although we have eternity set in our hearts we find it very difficult to understand eternity...Solomon thought that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live...He thought that each of us may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all our work—this is the gift of God...He knew that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from what God has actually done...God does it so that people will fear Him...Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account and what has happened in our lives...
I might believe that things happen sometimes for a purpose and at other times they do not...And in the end there is a time and a season for all things...But in this and whatever has happened to us and our friends and our families in the end God's Will gets done...And end this end He wants His children to meet Him in heaven...
So sin happens in our lives and we all fall short of the Glory of God...Sin separates us from God...Sin keeps us from doing our best...But God wants us to be saved and with Him...So He sent us Jesus so we can be pardoned of our sins, by believing this...God has made Him our Mediator and Reconciler and now does not count our sins against us...God wants us in heaven with Him and His Son...God is LOVE and Full of Grace...So God has sent us Jesus to save us from our sins and be our Savior...Jesus knew no sin; so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him...As Jesus announced in Our LORD's Prayer God's kingdom come, God's will be done, on earth as it is in heaven...We can believe that God's Will gets done on earth like it does in heaven...