I have been thinking a lot about this year and how to make sense of it all (which, I would say, is largely impossible). As I wrote on Saturday, this season of heaviness and year of adversity is something to which each one of us has been “appointed.” (1 Thes 3:3) That is not merely something said to inspire or invigorate — I truly believe that you and I have been made to endure 2020 precisely because God has appointed us to endure it. As it is his prerogative to reign over the seasons which operate in their due course (Ecc 3:1–8), so it is his providence which rules over all our days, whether they be good or ill. (Ecc 7:14) Ours is a sovereign God whose plans are always realized and always come together.
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On God’s plans and the hope of eventide.
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I have been thinking a lot about this year and how to make sense of it all (which, I would say, is largely impossible). As I wrote on Saturday, this season of heaviness and year of adversity is something to which each one of us has been “appointed.” (1 Thes 3:3) That is not merely something said to inspire or invigorate — I truly believe that you and I have been made to endure 2020 precisely because God has appointed us to endure it. As it is his prerogative to reign over the seasons which operate in their due course (Ecc 3:1–8), so it is his providence which rules over all our days, whether they be good or ill. (Ecc 7:14) Ours is a sovereign God whose plans are always realized and always come together.