Daily Worship

Take some time out with God.

Andy Campbell June 21, 2016 0 0

Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes 3: 1, and 9-14

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

What do workers gain from their toil?  I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.  That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.  I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will feel awe in his presence.

It is mid summer’s day and at the Royal Highland Show the day of manoeuvring huge tractors, combine harvesters and forestry equipment– necessities in modern agriculture - which will cost the people who buy them hundreds of thousands of pounds.   The large team of stewards and marshalls are now on duty to ensure that safety is paramount while the Show is being set up. Time is of the essence and everybody feels under pressure.
 

Father You give us the time of our lives,
and promise us eternity in your presence as well.  
This moment and the millennia are all Yours.
Dawn through day and dusk into dark are filled with You,
as the world that You created for us to enjoy spins through space and around the sun
….a star amongst galaxies that You formed for Your own glory and pleasure.
You are a great God indeed, …..greater than we think and greater than we can think,
and we give to You our praise and worship in this and every day.

Setter of seasons and generator of genes,
Life cycles are products of Your creative imagination, worked up into reality
Across the ages; evolving and emerging ecologically.
Tides wash shores of rock and sand the world around
Forests and deserts, fields and snow-topped mountain display your grandeur;
And overhead an eagle soars, below a cumulus cloud in an atmosphere so precisely balanced
That rain-drops form and creatures of every shape and size can thrive.

And I know Good Lord that my countryside looks the way it does
because farmers and foresters work with nature making and make it look that way.
A hill-full of sheep, the apple orchard, a fruiting hedge-row and swaying barley,
Each has the mark of heaven and human.
And a grain of wheat in my hand shares as much of your divine care as the great spiral galaxy.
If I am to walk in the footsteps of He who made the stars and sea,
I too am called to care – to be responsible in my use of resources –
To consider, and to walk through my days responsibly.
Being mindful of Earth’s origins – and of my destiny!