The Right Time

During your time of standing for your marriage, you may find yourself at a loss as to what you are supposed to do in a given situation.  Do I fight back or humbly submit?  Do I attempt to hold onto this by myself or do I entrust it to the hands of God?  Whatever the time, whatever the situation there is an appropriate response.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

¹ There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

 ^2-8 A right time for birth and another for death,
   A right time to plant and another to reap,
   A right time to kill and another to heal,
   A right time to destroy and another to construct,
   A right time to cry and another to laugh,
   A right time to lament and another to cheer,
   A right time to make love and another to abstain,
   A right time to embrace and another to part,
   A right time to search and another to count your losses,
   A right time to hold on and another to let go,
   A right time to rip out and another to mend,
   A right time to shut up and another to speak up,
   A right time to love and another to hate,
   A right time to wage war and another to make peace.

This may be a season of tearing down wall and barriers to your heart and the rebuilding of vital relationships.  It may be the right time to plant seeds of new hope or the right time to reap the fruits of your prayers.  It is the right time to love your spouse through the hurt and pain and it's always the right time to hate the deeds of the enemy as he tries to tear down what God has put together.

It's difficult to know the right response to a hateful act but there is a right response.  There is a right response to an impossible situation.  It may seem weird or abstract....maybe even foolish but there is a RIGHT way and a RIGHT time.  Search for what is right in the sight of the Lord and He will make it right with man.

Josh and Serena