To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
We live in a wheel of nature where one spoke is uppermost, then another; constant ebbing and flowing, waxing and waning. Every change concerning us is fixed by a supreme power, and we cannot alter what is appointed. So in prosperity, be easy yet not secure, humble and even-minded, neither lifted up with hopes nor cast down with fears.
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Commenting on Ecclesiastes 3:1-10
God has foreordained everything and fixed all times and seasons in His own power. The world did not exist from everlasting, nor form itself by chance, but by God's wisdom and power at the moment He willed. He has set the time for its duration and end, which only He knows, and so too for every lesser thing.
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Nothing in this world is perpetual, and Solomon teaches us two things: that diversity of time shows all things are temporary, and that we ought not to grieve if we cannot have all things at once or keep them as long as we desire.
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