Divine Timing (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Ecclesiastes 3:11, David Platt encourages us to God in times when we struggle to see or understand what He is doing.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners this is the last week to register for secret church 24 on Friday April 19th
0:05.6	Together we're gonna walk verse by verse of the story of redemption in the book of Ruth
0:10.8	Pray for the persecuted church in North Korea. You can register today by visiting
0:15.8	Radical.net.
0:20.0	Ruth. Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Madical.
0:22.0	Net. with David Platt is a resource from Madical.net.
0:24.6	Ecclesiasties chapter 3, verse 11.
0:27.5	He has made everything beautiful in its time.
0:30.7	Also he has put eternity into man's heart yet so that he cannot find out what
0:36.0	God has done from the beginning to the end. Oh let this verse soak in and
0:41.6	change your perspective on life and the world around you.
0:47.0	God has made everything beautiful in its time. This verse is a potent reminder to us that we don't see all the
1:01.6	beautiful tapestry God is weaving over all of time.
1:07.0	We see such a small part and we can get so focused on the small part we see on the day-to-day
1:18.0	things we see and the struggles and the challenges and the sorrows and the trials in the moment and we don't see we can't see how they relate to the big picture even to the big picture of a year or two or three or ten years, much less the
1:37.3	big picture of a century, much less the big picture of all time, yet God sees it all and this verse is a call for us to trust
1:49.6	God in the long term, in the overall picture of time that he sees.
1:58.2	Realizing as the rest of verse 11 goes on to say that God has put eternity into our hearts, that there is time,
2:08.8	eternity past and time for eternity future to come and what God has done from the beginning to the end
2:17.4	he sees it all in a way that none of us can see it all and so let
2:22.4	Ecclesiasties 311 today draw you to deeper trust in God to
2:29.7	not view your life or the world in the short term and what you can see and what you have
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