A Season for Everything

(Ecclesiastes 3:1) There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.

Don't make choices based upon your feelings!

(Song of Solomon 2:8-10) Listen! My lover! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice. My lover spoke and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.’

1.The season of perfection (love is blind).

• Limit your time alone (that you spend together).

• Limit your talk (Don't say things too soon).

• Limit your touch (Live by principle not desire).

(Song of Solomon 2:11-12) See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.

(Song of Solomon 2:14) My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

2. The season of preparation.

• Become the right person (& the right person will find you).

• Walk in love (Love is a choice).

• Fix all my hopes and dreams on God.

(Song of Solomon 2:15) Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.

3. The season of purity.

• Put parameters around my

 passions.

• Use family as a safeguard.

• Let Jesus make all things new.

(Song of Solomon 3:5) Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

The key to building a great marriage is living a God -first life.

Chris Hodges, Church of the Highlands

Video

https://www.churchofthehighlands.com/media/message/a-season-for-everything1

Discussion Guide

https://www.churchofthehighlands.com/files/groups/guides/2-11-18_.pdf

All scripture is from the New International Version unless otherwise noted.