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Ecclesiastes 3 · Grade 4

God's Seasons

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Read and Think

Chapter 3 begins with a poem. For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. It lists pairs of opposites. There is a time to plant. There is a time to build up. There is a time to weep, and a time to laugh. There is a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

Life has many seasons. God rules them all. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. We long for what lasts.

The Preacher says he knows that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good. Whatever God does, it shall be forever. God has done it, that men should fear before him. He also says that God will judge the righteous and the wicked.

Show What You Know

  1. What are the pairs in the poem?

  2. Who rules life's seasons?

  3. What do we long for?

  4. What is there nothing better than?

  5. Whom will God judge?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

timebeautifulseasonlaughGod
  1. For everything there is a , and a time for every purpose under heaven.
  2. There is a to plant.
  3. There is a time to weep, and a time to .
  4. rules them all.
  5. He has made everything in its time.

Think About It

  1. There is a time to weep, and a time to laugh. Which season of life are you in right now?

  2. He has made everything beautiful in its time. How can you trust God's timing when you have to wait?

Memory Verse

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for the right time for everything. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What can you do when you see something unfair?
  • What is the gift of God?

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