Since taking the job with Cessna, I have been wondering. Did I take the easy way out? How can I be a “good Christian” when things are given to me so easily? I have also been thinking about my hobbies, and my choices for spring break this year. Can snowboarding really be apart of God’s plan for my life? Can I use this talent to further God’s kingdom? Well, I’ve been told “yes.” I’m trying desperately to hold onto that, to have faith in that. Tonight, I found an answer to some of the questions I have been asking. I found it in a book of the Bible I wouldn’t have expected: Ecclesiastes. The “a time for everything” passage is well known to most people familiar with the Bible. What I found is what come after that passage.
“What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 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. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.”*
There is another verse in 5:18, that continues this thought. This is very uplifting. God still has amazing thing planned for me that I cannot fathom. I do not think that I will not experience trials or hardships in my life, but he has made everything beautiful in its time.
*Ecclesiastes 3:9-14
