There is an opportune time, an appointed time, a right time for everything in life, in the affairs of nations and its peoples. Those times creep in on us except a man is given to recognise them. Consider verses 10-11 of our text:

Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses. He sets the time for birth and the time for death, the time for planting and the time for pulling up, the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building. He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for dancing, the time for making love and the time for not making love, the time for kissing and the time for not kissing. He sets the time for finding and the time for losing, the time for saving and the time for throwing away, the time for tearing and the time for mending, the time for silence and the time for talk. He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.  What do we gain from all our work? I know the heavy burdens that God has laid on us. He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does. So I realized that all we can do is be happy and do the best we can while we are still alive. Ecclesiastes 3:1-12 (GNT)

Solomon’s conclusion in verse 12 portrays the difference for a man without the Holy Spirit!

But when the truth-giving Spirit comes, he will unveil the reality of every truth within you. He won’t speak on his own, but only what he hears from the Father, and he will reveal prophetically to you what is to come. John 16:13 (TPT) *see also John 16:13 AMPC 

The Holy Spirit holds the key to revealing what is to come and He will show same to those who wait upon Him, who respect the commandment to watch and pray. If we don’t, we surrender ourselves to the travail spoken of in Ecclesiastes 3:10, pursuing the values of the errant world with all the attendant stress. Do you have the Holy Spirit? Are you conscious of all He can do and is willing to do in you? Would you take time to study closely John 14:26 (AMPC), John 15:26 (AMPC) and John 16: 13, 14 (AMPC). There is no greater wisdom for these times than to draw upon what we are offered in the Holy Spirit. Will you? Selah.

 
Pastor Afolabi Oladele