01.17.08 Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

RE:flect
"a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted..."
This is a literal writing here. Solomon is actually talking about the spring planting and fall harvest. But also consider what God expects of you during your time now as a student. Does is make sense to you that God is more concerned that his WORD is planted in your heart during these years of your life? Does it make sense that it may take a few years to see that word breaking forth in the soil? Sometimes we can see the "harvest" of wisdom and wise choices before our graduation from high school. But most of what is "planted" in your heart through your parents, sponsors, myself -- may not make sense, or change your life by Friday. Perhaps God does not intend to radically change your life by Friday.

RE:act
Submission to others first begins with a submission to God. If you are willing to listen and learn from parents and other adults in your life -- do you connect that you have to first submit to God. Your willingness to not go "your own way" is an example to all (you care to look at your life) that you are not submitting to your parents and others because they say so... no , it is because you are obeying Jesus.

RE:ply
Lord, thank you for cycles. Thank you for a few things in this world we can count on.
Lord, thank you for being in control of more, of it all. You are not bound by cycles.
Lord, I long for your wisdom and insight. Help me to listen to my parents and adults as I follow you.
Lord, life can be tough. There is much I don't understand. Help me to use my understanding to help my friends and only classmates.

"Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.”
Matthew 13:8-9