The Rudder

"To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn." You remember that Byrds song from the 60's, in reality, right out of the book of Ecclesiastes.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%203&version=NLT

When you begin to contemplate how God works His ways through people, places, and events in our lives, you realize His ways are not our ways. For instance, God tells Samuel that the first king of Israel will be the guy he meets seeking his advice on his lost Donkey's. Sure enough Saul had lost his Donkey's and he and his dad decided to seek the prophet Samuel's advice on where to find them.

God's desire was to show his people that in reality they didn't need a king, but gave them over to their requests and provided them the tallest, most winsome-ist man in the kingdom to become their king. Of course, very soon, God was replacing him with a man after His own heart-David...

In today's mixed up world, where wrong is right, and right is left of wrong, we need a Compass that stay's pointed North through any storm. We may never know why there is a time to laugh and a time to cry, a time to mourn and a time to dance....