20 - Bible Commentary | Karuna Sadan

In Ecclesiastes 3:1-3,

To everything there is a season,

A time for every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born,

And a time to die;

A time to plant,

And a time to pluck what is planted;

A time to kill,

And a time to heal;

A time to break down,

And a time to build up;

Solomon fully recognized the inevitable and irreplaceable rewards of patience. It took seven long, difficult, and painful years to build the Temple. But, he achieved his dream.

In Galatians 6:9, we read, And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

As these words written in Ecclesiastes explain, [There is] ... A time to love, and a time to hate ... a time to break down, and a time to build up (Ecclesiastes 3:8,3).

He embraced each season, learned from each, and gained wisdom from each.

The successful cannot always prevent a tragedy around them, but they can prevent it from becoming a tragedy within them. Great men have known great pain.

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11 Amplified)

I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor can anything be taken from it, for God does it so that men will fear and worship Him [with awe-filled reverence, knowing that He is God]. (Ecclesiastes 3:14 Amplified)

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. (Ecclesiastes 3:15)

Is time cyclic in nature?

History repeating itself is a well known fact.

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