Everything is Ordered by the God of Love

God has arranged all things for our good, so that we can discover our place in Him. Everything is ordered by the God of love.

Tonight’s verses show God is in control, and everything is organised so that you are able to discover God’s love for you. Maybe you’re a visitor and Christianity isn’t your thing. At least open up your mind to the fact that got you here tonight, and there is a time for everything.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Psalms 31:15

Ecclesiastes 3:2-9

I mentioned hatred the other week – it is right to hate the wrong things.

Psalms 119:113

Psalms 119:128

You hate the false way.

Ecclesiastes 3:9-12

“He has made everything beautiful in His time.” You have only to think of Genesis. God saw everything that it was good. And the way God is weaving your life is to perfect you so that you will sometime step out of this body and be face to face with Him for eternity. And the tapestry He is weaving in our lives is perfect. Sometimes it’s as though all we see is the tangled web of threads on the back of the tapestry, but a picture is being formed on the other side.

There is a lovely old English quote, “It is the wise and regular and orderly administration of one who sees the end from the beginning and for whom there is no unanticipated contingency ...” Nothing surprises or upsets God. His emotions are constant. He is love. Nothing catches Him out. He’s planned for everything, set in the context of making everything good.

Nothing goes amiss in God’s economy. If you look at News at Ten, you wonder who is in control in man’s terms. In God’s terms there is a time for everything. He is a God of love and is concerned for us.

Some of you have wondered about God. There’s a time when God comes to you and says, “Now is the time for you get to involved with me because I want to get involved with you.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11-14

There’s a time for everything. There are times you can look back in your life when God was near and you were conscious of it. And it’s time again for you to get involved with God because it’s the right time.

Galatians 4:4-6

There came the fullness of time when God said, “This is the point in time” – so many thousands of years since the world was created – the perfect time for Him to send His son to live on the earth so that we could be set free. The perfect time came for Jesus Christ to be born on earth. It was so He could work out His purposes, so He could redeem a people for Himself – you and me and millions of others.

All the angels looked on and wondered and marvelled at what God was doing in preparing a bride for Himself.

Galatians 4:5

Instead of our first birth, there came a time when God stepped into our lives, opened our eyes and came to change us so that He then became our heavenly father.

You may think that’s obvious. But for a few of you here tonight, now is the time to realise why Christ came and why He is interested to change your inside for the good. He loves you.

Ecclesiastes 3:14-16

Acts 15:18

Ecclesiastes 12:13-15

God is ordering things after the counsel of His own will. He got you here tonight because He wants you to acknowledge who He is, so He can share His life with you and come inside you. He loves you. It’s a curious thing that those moments come, when you know inside God saying, “Now is the time” – and you know it is right.

How long will you be on this earth? Don’t know. Average age at death currently 78 male, 82 female. Quite a few of you will love to be over 100. What is your life all about? Up to this point, God has kept you. You’ve been getting on with your life. You’ve had thoughts about the future. At this moment God is getting involved with you and you know you have to sort things out. He’s prompting you. Circumstances are such that you have to sort things out.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Everything is ordered by the God of love.