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Posts tagged “Ecclesiastes 3

Getting to Promise

Kathy — As surely as Ishmael was a potential within the loins of Abraham, most of our “Ishmaels” are rooted WhichPlanMakewithin our own soul. An “Ishmael’s” strongest lure is usually that it is a logical or practical answer to a dilemma. An Ishmael represents a deceptive compromise or settlement or detour in our destiny. It is an effort to get to promise our way instead of God’s or in our time instead of His. Eccl.3:11, Amp — “He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.”


Eternity in Their Heart

HandsRaisedSunrise.jpgTomorrow is already in your heart. “He has also set eternity in their heart…” (Eccl.3:11). God has put something in you that identifies with tomorrow, that longs for tomorrow. Set it free. The wise man tells us here that there is something beyond the present; there is a tomorrow and there is an order in this present that speaks of that tomorrow, and that if observed and obeyed, will get us to that tomorrow.