The philosopher writes, “For 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 up what has been planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build up;” Ecclesiastes 3: 1-4

There is indeed a rhythm in life. Day turns into night, night into day. Days into weeks, weeks into months, and months into seasons. It is August, the end of summer and the beginning of fall.

Then the hustle and bustle of life increases again. Vacations are over, school begins, along with all the other activities that the fall has to offer. The busy fall season then moves in the winter holiday season. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year.

As work, school, holiday, and family demands increase the big loser is our relationship with God. Stop and think for a moment, how often do we have to make a choice between the demands of the “world” and our relationship with God?

In Ecclesiastes 3:9 the philosopher asks an important question: “What gain have the worker from their toil?” A thousand years later another great philosopher asked, “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his eternal life?”

When life gets busy it is easy to forget about God. God doesn’t make demands of us like work, school, family, etc. God silently waits for us to regain our senses and remember that just as there is a season and time for everything else, there is also a TIME and a SEASON for God.

When your “winter” comes, your hope won’t be found in the trophy you won for basketball, the promotion you got at work, the rounds of golf you played, or the number of fish you caught. Your only hope rests on your relationship with God.

September 11th, is Rally Day. Worship at 8:00 am and 10:30 am. Sunday school starts at 9:15 am. Wednesday worship at 6:30 pm and mid-week youth activities start on September 14th at 7:00 pm. Now is the SEASON, the time to return to God.

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