Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck what is planted.
Some of you may recall that I was a Combat Missile Crew Commander back in my Air Force days. At that time I was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Our squadron had five launch centers (buried deep underground) and each center controlled at least ten nuclear missiles assigned to it.
This was a tense time in our world and the threat of nuclear warfare was always a very real concern. Our launch sequences had to be perfectly coordinated with the other centers in our Squadron as well as other outside units.
One of the many steps in coordinating a potential retaliatory response, if we were attacked, was to insure that everyone involved had the same time, to the very second. Our clock in the Capsule was accurate, but each day at midnight we would tune to Radio Station WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado. They would transmit the accurate time and we would insure that our clocks were precisely set.
Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us that there are specific times in our life that are designated for its own purpose. We must never deviate from the Word of God. In a world with divergent voices that try to spout wisdom, there is only one source of accurate truth and that is our Bible. I urge each of you to spend more time than ever reading and heeding what God has inspired the writers of Scripture to record.
Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!
—Pastor Cecil