Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is an occasion for everything,

and a time for every activity

under heaven

 

Thought for the day

The blogger Jill Printzenhoff writes about a time how she went fishing and caught nothing and yet the fisherman next to her managed to pull out seven. They were using different bait and she describes it as not her day. She finishes her blog post with these words: ‘You keep striving, you keep working, and you keep on keeping on. Because some day when you cast your line . . . you will be at the right spot at the right time . . . and that day will be your day . . . the day you catch that all elusive fish!’

I believe that there is a time for everything under heaven and earth and sometimes, well actually, all the time we need to be patient and wait because the reality of the situation is we are working to God’s time. The writer of Ecclesiastes also says this about God’s timing: ‘He has made everything appropriate[b] in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts,[c] but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.’

There is a mystery to God’s timing that we cannot fathom because we do not have the full picture and so to paraphrase Jill: ‘we keep striving, we keep working, and we keep on keeping on. Because some day we’ll cast our line . . .we will be at the right spot at the right time . . . and that day will be our day.’

Trust God. His timing is perfect.

Jill’s blogpost can be found here:

https://jillprintzenhoff.com/2017/06/13/not-my-day/