It’s all about time—the only resource you can’t replenish. And isn’t it sad that in a lifetime—one study found—you will spend an entire year looking for lost stuff, and five years waiting in line.
In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon seems to know that just as time is essential, timing is essential too because it dictates the appropriateness of things. For instance, I can say the right thing, but if I say the right thing at the wrong time it becomes the wrong thing. It’s all related to time. And every purpose under heaven has an appropriate point in time (appointment with destiny), and an appropriate season (duration).
So to illustrate this, Solomon writes a poem using “polar opposites”—birth/death, war/peace, love/hate, etc. “Polar opposites” was a common poetical device to communicate totality. And all of these polar opposites describe the first polar opposite which is birth and death. Between birth and death, we’ll look at all the other realities common to human existence. This edition of Real Life Matters will give you hope as you face all these seasons of life.
