Time for Every Purpose

Ken

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV). There are no accidents with God. Everything has an appointed time. “For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth” (3:1 NET). Christians are inclined to blame the Jews for not being ready to accept their Messiah, which resulted in God’s destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, but is the Church, as the Bride of Christ, ready for the soon return of her Coming Spouse? “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (Habakkuk 2:3 KJV). Lack of understanding and focus on the fundamentals of everything that constitutes our faith renders us incapable of mounting but a feeble response to all the pressing needs of the world. “According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2Peter 1:3). Christianity has gotten into a mindset assuming Christ’s Second Coming must come whether we as the Church have spotless garments or not, but Christ warned of the foolishness of assuming we have the oil of the Holy Spirit, when we lack the ongoing power of His presence in our lives, i.e., Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13). “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38). Only as we wrestle with the daily application of God’s Word to our circumstances can our lives be conformed to Christ in thought and deed. Especially, when the Holy Spirit answers the perplexing questions of the Scripture, which often embarrass us in front of the world. Instead, we need to fully embrace our Heavenly Spouse and put off all thinking and practices that keep us from running the race successfully. “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1). Only then will we be ready to enter in to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Matthew 25, Revelation 19). Father, prepare us as the Bride to be ready to meet Christ when He returns. Allow us not to be satisfied with someone else’s ideas of religion, but give us the Berean mindset of searching the “scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:11). Make us well pleasing to You. Lord Jesus, return quickly. Amen and amen.