It’s Our Time
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-13
Everything has its time and season. God by his providence governs the world, and has determined particular things and operations to particular times. However if we neglect the appointed seasons we sin against this providence and become the authors of our own distresses.
God has given to man that portion of duration called time; the space in which all the operations of nature, of animals, and intellectual beings, are carried on. But while nature is steady in its course, and animals faithful to their instinct, man devotes it to a great variety of purposes, very frequently to that for which God never made time, space or opportunity.
Our theme here at Southampton UMC is A Season of New Beginnings and Fresh Starts. Behold I will do a new thing Now it shall spring forth shall you not know it? As the New Year begins, I think it is time for us to rethink time.
Jesus knew all there was to know about time. He knew when his time had come to give his life. He knew whom to trust with his life, with his own coming and going.
For the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. In these words, God’s timing breaks into our human timing. Something new appears.
When Jesus says that the right hour has come, that the kingdom of God is at hand, He pronounces the victory over death. When God Himself appears in a moment of time, when he subjects Himself to the flux of time, the flux of time is conquered.
Time is appointed by God; humans are not in control of their own destiny.
Because of His fore knowledge, only God knows and fore ordains events in time.
God sees all things in time from a perspective of eternity, He sees the end from the beginning.
Humans are sometimes trapped in time and sometimes cannot discern the meaning and significance of time in their day.
However believers must look beyond the surface things of life and begin to discern the spiritual significance of their own day, the deeper spiritual issues which give life meaning.
Believers are anointed and appointed by God to operate in accordance to the prophetic, we are to be spiritual discern, there is more to the events of an era than meets the eye. Each moment of this life is an arena for decisions with eternal consequences.
Therefore Christians should be careful to discern the meaning and significance of their time, comprehending both the reality of evil and the movement of God in history.
Although as Christians we live in time but yet we look forward to the day when the sting of time shall be no more. In this sense we move and operate prophetically.
We trust and believe in the promises of God and our actions and all that we do is in alignment with the promise that has been prophesized and promise that of eternal life.
A prophetic move of God is one in which the Lord moves on the behalf of and includes in this move a specific people or persons to accomplish that which the Lord seeks to be done. It is particular to the people, the place and the time.
This morning Southampton I am here as a messenger of the Lord to state It’s Our Time, the wait is over. It is time for us to operate in accordance to the timing of God.
On My Toes for Christ
Rev. Leslie Duroseau
