a time

We only hear the first few lines in this passage. We seldom take into consideration the whole passage.

Read the whole thing & think about it's implications.

It is fairly well accepted that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes.


Ecclesiastes 3:

1 For everything there is a season,

  a time for every activity under heaven.


2 A time to be born

        and a time to die.


  A time to plant

        and a time to harvest.


3 A time to kill

        and a time to heal.


  A time to tear down

        and a time to build up.


4 A time to cry

        and a time to laugh.


  A time to grieve

        and a time to dance.



5 A time to scatter stones

        and a time to gather stones.


  A time to embrace

        and a time to turn away.



6 A time to search

       and a time to quit searching.


  A time to keep

        and a time to throw away.



7 A time to tear

        and a time to mend.


  A time to be quiet

        and a time to speak.



8 A time to love

        and a time to hate.


  A time for war

        and a time for peace.



And here's a couple of verses that bear consideration...


Ecclesiastes 3: 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.

He has planted eternity in the human heart,

     but even so,

  people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.



vs 14 And I know that whatever God does is final.

Nothing can be added to it or taken from it.