LEARN HOW TO ADJUST

" There is time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven" (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

Almost 3,000 years ago, Solomon spoke of a human dilemma which the insights and applications are relevant to our time.

He spoke about the experience of many who are busy grasping the sweet things - possessions, experience, power and pleasure - which are sinking them into despair.

Solomon's point is that God has a plan for all people. Thus the provision of all these cycles of life, give us the opportunities to discover that, without God, life's problems have no lasting solutions!

When seasons change we must learn to adjust to that change. As I look out my window this afternoon I see how the leaves on the trees are busy going. The same trees that were recently full and lush with beautiful leaves now are on the way to become bare. In our side of the hemisphere, the winter season is around the corner. The days will be cold and we will have to adjust accordingly to the change that is about to come.

And so it is with the seasons in our lives. Some things will come and bring a different way of doing things. If we don't accept them and adjust our life to them, we will have a difficult time getting through that new season.

It all comes down to learning to let go, moving on and adjusting accordingly. God will help us in this if we embrace the change of the season and let Him show us what adjustments we need to make.

Don't be afraid, and don't worry. It will be beautiful once again. Just in a different way.

" He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Solomon says that God has "set eternity in the hearts of men". This means that we can never be satisfied with earthly pleasures and pursuits. Because we are created in God's image, we have a spiritual thirst, we have eternal value and nothing but the eternal God can truly satisfy us. God has built in us a restless yearning for the kind of perfect world that can only be found in His perfect rule. He has given us a glimpse of the perfection of His creation. But it is only a glimpse; we cannot see into the future or comprehend everything.