There is an appointed time for everything,
and a time for every thing under the heavens.
We only see parts of the larger plan at any one time. We see the time to weep and can't imagine how there will also be a time to laugh. We want to focus only on a time to heal but sometimes history forces the world into a time to kill. We see bits and pieces of the plan swirling around. But there is only one way to see the big picture.
He has made everything appropriate to its time,
and has put the timeless into their hearts,
without man's ever discovering,
from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
We don't discover the timeless and the eternal by doing the math on the component parts. We only discover them by trusting in the one who makes all things work together for the good of those who love him (see Romans 8:28).
This is the only way we can hold the great truths of our faith at the same time.
Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Peter said in reply, "The Christ of God."
Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed and long-promised savior of the world. But he is also the suffering servant, the sacrifice, the lamb of God offered for our sins.
He said, "The Son of Man must suffer greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised."
There is a time for every purpose under heaven. There is a time for the cross and a time for glory. We fixate on the fragments. Let us instead trust in the one who puts each fragment in its proper place.
Blessed be the LORD, my rock,
my mercy and my fortress,
my stronghold, my deliverer,
My shield, in whom I trust.
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