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Ecclesiastes 3
A reflection on God’s timing, inheritance, and the beauty He makes visible in each season.
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Everything has its time, and its moments. Like a painting that captures and freezes that one moment in time, God gives us a world where those moments and inspirations come alive for us to draw upon. The one who created this world has made everything beautiful in its time.
The one who created this world has made everything beautiful in its time.
Ecclesiastes 3:11, John 1:1-4
During last Sunday, we went over Paul’s analogy of the children of God being heirs and co-heirs with Christ. There is something that God allows us to inherit the moment his love calls us. If it is by grace, then it’s not by work. So more than what we can accomplish, it is knowing what God has accomplished, and what he has allowed us to inherit. Isn’t it?
This is what the wise teacher of Israel realized as he speaks in Ecclesiastes about the wonders from God’s time. Everything has its time, and its moments. Like a painting that captures and freezes that one moment in time, what is the most beautiful and inspiring moment in this world, God gives us a world where those moments and inspirations comes alive for us to draw upon.
The one who created this world has made everything beautiful in its time. Although men possess the ability to think for themselves, but there is no one who can create like the way God has done. This is the realization of Solomon: God has set eternity in the hearts of men, that they would long for the beautiful things that God has made, and yet there is no one who can fathom what God has truly done from beginning until the end. This is the mystery to the beauty that the Lord has given us.
In Matthew 6, the Lord said to look at the lilies of the field how they do not labor or spin, and yet not even Solomon and all his splendor was dressed like one of these. God made the most beautiful things, and yet men could not truly grasp its beauties because of the way we become limited. In this case, Jesus was referring to the worries of men and how they’ve entrapped themselves in darkness despite how God’s creation is beautiful without all the worries that accompanies men.
This brings us to the ministry that we are celebrating today. Creatio, or in Latin, the act of creating, is the name that is given to our fellowship of designers. We are called to create beautiful things like God who created this world in 6 days. This is “creatio ex nihilo,” which translates from Latin as “creation out of nothing.”
Though we desire to create, we cannot create out of nothing like God does. If you talk to artists, they are the ones who are inspirationally attached. They need to be inspired to start something. Without inspiration, everything feels like an empty shell, just another paint and canvas on the wall.
Where does our inspiration come from? Symphany
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