Days I despair of even putting up my studies on our blog or sharing on Facebook and even doing three classes a week. So many times, I get discouraged wondering if anybody reads or even appreciates my efforts to share my little studies. When the time is right, when we need something that will give us satisfaction the most, God will unveil His little gift of beauty. But in most Semitic languages its equivalent has the idea of an appropriate time, the right circumstance. We are not sure just what the root word is. The word time is spelled Ayin Taw and pronounced ‘eth. So, God has already fashioned something that will bring us great satisfaction and will reveal it to us in the appropriate time. It is something that is lovely to look at and causes you to find satisfaction in looking at it or experiencing it. It is something that excites the senses in a pleasurable way. Yapah in its Semitic origins would best be represented by the English word beautiful. However, that is a distant English word to use for yapah. These translators consider the context to refer to the events in our lives as all coming together and being appropriate, acceptable. Some translations say appropriate and I can understand why they would say that. All that He is forming, creating has already been formed and fashioned, He is just waiting for the right time to reveal what He has already prepared for us. But check out the word ‘asah for creating or making. ![]() He makes all that He is fashioning or forming complete in His time. The word everything is hachol from the root word kalal which has a definite article, the, and means the whole or the complete. The word made is ‘asah which means forming, fashioning, creating or fulfilling. ![]() Now that I am 70 years old, I am beginning to realize the significance of the words of that song and the verse in Ecclesiastes 3:11. When my music leader would request a song to sing almost always these seniors, whose remaining time on this earth was short, would request we sing an old worship song entitled “In His Time.” I have often thought about what would was going through their minds when they made such a request. I used to be a chaplain in a nursing home and every Sunday I would hold a service where I would play the keyboard and we would sing many of the old hymns and worship songs. Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He has made everything beautiful in its time.”
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