A time for everything!
Those were the words given tonight by a minister who pastored a church for 46 years.
He is about 90 years old, his voice is strong, he has a young wife, and is in excellent shape. However, he said there is a time for everything. He is retiring, he said, to move on with his life, which he says is just getting started at 90.
We gain much if we learn learn to do things in the right season season. There is a time for the wildness of the adolsecent life, when we do stupid things and take reckless chances with wild irresponsible living.
There is also a time to grow up and take responsibility for our lives.
We can't be grown and children too. The two don't happen at the same time.
There is a verse in Ecclesiastes 3:1 which indicates that there is a time for everything under the sun. Everything has its season. If we are not careful we may try to stay in one season too long forcing the seasons to run into each other. Then life becomes a blur.
The elderly minister recognized his season and plans to move on.
I wonder if there is a lesson we can all learn from that.
It may be time for us to stop holding on to our childhood season and grow up.
Then we can move on.
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