Chasing Time

We often find ourselves attempting to control time and the seasons that come and go in our lives. The Preacher in Ecclesiastes reminds us that life is full of varied seasons and none of us can predict or control the seasons that come and go. We do not happen to time, time happens to us. God alone stands beyond time and only what he does in the world and in and through us will endure. The call of Ecclesiastes is not to passivity, but rather to engaging presence as we respond to the changing seasons of life knowing that God is at work in history. We do not suffer or rejoice alone, but we follow Christ’s footsteps as the one who has suffered and rejoiced for and before us.