Ecclesiastes 3:6 A time to get….

  In today’s society we are always in the mindset to get, get, get, and get more. You will see it all over social media. With that mind set, it becomes very selfish when not used in the right attitude. You can get physical things and get knowledgeable things. You can get Ideas. You can get anything. You can get to another place. The Bible does give us some great examples of when to "get”. Let’s look at a few.

Matthew 13:54 (NIV)  Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked.

  Here we see a great example of how the people were amazed at Jesus’s teachings and had asked, where did He get this wisdom and power? If there is ever a time to "get”, it would be to get the wisdom and the power of God. We should get the fruits of the spirit as written in Galatians 5:22-23. We should be constantly getting the things pertaining to God. We need to get God’s word in our hearts.

Proverbs 3:13  Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Psalm 119:104  Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 16:16  How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

We need to be listening to God. Many time we are told to get to certain places.

Genesis 12:1  Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Matthew 14:22  And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

So often we might be led or told to get to a place that God wants us to be. God even to Lot to get out of Sodom. God has His plan for each and every one of us. We are all unique, and God will get us on each on our own paths that He has set forward.

Psalm 25:4  Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.

Psalm 119:35  Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Proverbs 3:6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

We might even be tasked to get things.

Matthew 17:27  Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

Here we find Jesus telling Peter that he needed to go fishing and the 1^st fish he catches there will be a coin he can bring back to pay Jesus’s tribute to those who came for collection. Peter was told to get the coin and where to find it.

Matthew 21:2  saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

Jesus here sends two disciples into the city to get a donkey for Him to ride upon entering the city.

Throughout the Bible we will find all kind of reason to get for multiple reasons. We need to discern for each of us when it is our time to get, whether it is to retrieve, learn, or moving from one place to another. The scriptures are clear in this endeavor. If we go back and really focus on Proverbs 33:13, I quoted earlier, that would be the start to us understanding these times. Going back to the very beginning of this study, God's reason for telling us when it is time to get is for His glory and His way to help us and not our own selfish reasons.