Selah! Take Time and Think Before Indulging

Solomon, the author of Proverbs, is also the author of Ecclesiastes. It is interesting to note that this man, was the wisest of his time, and the bible notes that no one before him or after him has held such wisdom.

In Ecclesiastes 3, he writes:

For everything, there is a season; A time for every activity under heaven.

2 A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.3 A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.4 A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.5 A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.6 A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.7 A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.8 A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.


For everything there is a season,


9 What do people really get for all their hard work? 10 I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. 12 So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

14 And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him. 15 What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.

It is possible to reckon that all there is in life is to enjoy oneself with all that the Lord God has given.  While enjoying is good, it is important to understand the context in which one is enjoying himself or herself.  There is a scope, there is a destiny, there is a plan that God has put in place for every man and woman to live in.  Whereas this may be in grey and not black and white, the scriptures provide a clear pathway on how to trend on these grey paths.

So as we plan to indulge in that which God has blessed us with - our monies, our power - the question to bear at all times is, how does this contribute to my getting to God's destiny for me? Is is pro or against?  

After all is said and done, God's purpose and intention for every human being is that we may fear Him (revere and worship him)!  Shall we worship the Lord with our blessings? With our intellect, with our voices, with our friends and families, our monies, our assets - with all that He has blessed us with!

Selah!