For Everything There Is A Season

MON., DEC. 27, 1982, 6:13 AM
FARM, STUDY

You are finally here again, o son, still with some doubts, but the major ones have abated, and you are ready to hear Me again. There is nothing wrong with a time of doubt in regard to My nature, purposes, and powers, but when these occur in called servants I become impatient if the time is what I deem excessive. (And the time, of course, is important only in relationship to the accomplishment of earth tasks.) It is particularly interesting when the cause is another of My called servants, doing what it is her task to do. You were beguiled by another’s story, and even though it is a true and wonderful story, it is not yours.

“For every thing there is a season…” You know why I put this in quotes… I don’t really like to use the word “thing” to represent what are “non-things,” but, you see, you have difficulty even now with developing a suitable alternate statement. The statement has become well known, and it communicates adequately, even though “thing” is too limited for the concept with which we are concerned.

Yes, there is a season for doubt. I know this, and I expect it, but it still makes Me impatient. The compensating factor, however, is the source of the doubt. It was a most spirited defense of My Scriptures and proper concern for doctrines and realities that are not obviously there and clearly expressed. That is a most important concern, and I strengthen Mabel and others to present that challenge (and anything that can bring you to more reading of the Scriptures is to be applauded). Still, I have another story for you to tell, and it is of more value to some than the more conservative and orthodox one. Hear and remember this.

“For every thing there is a season.” You have just been in the Christmas season, and where do the basic readings come from? Luke and Matthew, together, tell the Christmas story, but they tell it differently. Luke gives you shepherds, and Matthew tells about wisemen… but each brings the story of a baby born in Bethlehem. Mark is a good and important story of Me as Jesus, but he tells nothing of My birth nor of the coming of the Holy Spirit. Is his story to be cast aside because it contributes nothing of significance to Christmas? John is mystical when he says that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. How did this happen? It wasn’t important in John’s story… but the coming of the Holy Spirit was… even though this wasn’t vital to Matthew’s story. Every story does not fit every season.

That is a spiritual truth that should come to you from the Bible. In words the Bible does not say there are different stories, but as you read it you see this. Some of Paul’s conclusions and proclamations do not sound like Ecclesiastes. When he says, in effect, believe no story other than mine is he casting out Ecclesiastes? Part of the story of the Bible… an important part… is that there are many stories that represent My relationship with the people of the earth. Yours is not completely orthodox, but it is a good one. When I am a part of it, it is bound to be good!