This document discusses different types of changes: cyclic changes like the seasons that follow natural rhythms established by God, and non-cyclic changes like unexpected life events. It notes how God created order and rhythms to govern life on Earth, like the cycles of day and night, growth and reproduction in plants and animals. The rhythms of a human life include stages like childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age. While these rhythms are same for all, how each person experiences them differs. The document also discusses transitions between life stages, unexpected changes that disrupt routines, and how our interactions with others can bring changes for better or worse, so Christians should be a good influence.
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1. Lesson 1 for April 6, 2019
Adapted from www.fustero.es
www.gmahktanjungpinang.org
“To everything there is a season, a time for
every purpose under heaven’”
(Ecclesiastes 3:1)
2. CYCLIC CHANGES
• Order and rhythm
• The rhythms of life
NON-CYCLIC CHANGES
•Unexpected changes
•Transitions
•Interactions
“To everything there is a season…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). God created
time and the rhythms that govern life on Earth (plants, animals and
human beings).
Those rhythms are the same for everyone,
but not everyone lives them the same way.
There are changes that affect people
differently. Those changes shape our lives.
3. ORDER AND
RHYTHM
“While the earth remains, seedtime and
harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and
day and night shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22)
According to Genesis 1, God created the
Earth and He transformed it from
disorder to perfection.
He methodically separated day from night,
divided the waters, made dry land appear, made
plants germinate and created the lights in the
firmament that would establish the rhythms of
Earth (days, months, years).
In an orderly way, He filled the Earth with living
beings, and put order in their lives (to grow and
to multiply). “Order is Heaven’s first law.” (ST,
June 8, 1908).
Although sin introduced disorder
into our world, the rhythms God
established in the beginning still
govern our existence.
4. As Solomon said, there’s “a time to be born, and
a time to die.” (Ecclesiastes 3:2). There are
some rhythms or cycles between those two
moments of our lives:
Childhood
(Judges 13:24;
Luke 2:40)
Youth
(Psalm 71:5; 1
Timothy 4:12)
Adulthood
(Genesis 41:46;
Acts 7:23)
Old age
(Psalm 90:10;
Philemon 1:9)
Those rhythms are the same for everyone, but
not everyone lives them the same way. We are
all different and we’re living in different stages.
However, everyone is valuable and has something
to give.
THE RHYTHMS
OF LIFE
“The glory of young men is
their strength, and the
splendor of old men is their
gray head.” (Proverbs 20:29)
5. We all have our own rhythms and routines. Sometimes,
unexpected changes may disrupt them.
Job’s case is an extreme one (he lost his possessions,
his laborers, his children, his health, and the support
of his wife and friends). However, everyone is subject
to possible radical changes that may change the
circumstances of our lives–for the better or for the
worse.
Abel died all of a sudden, Joseph was sold as a slave
by his own brothers.
If we cling to God and
trust Him, we’ll be able to
face those unexpected
changes and to get the
best things out of the new
circumstances
(Genesis 50:20).
UNEXPECTED
CHANGES
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and
naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and
the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name
of the Lord.” (Job 1:21)
6. Transitions set the change between life
stages: childhood, youth, adulthood, old
age.
There are transitions in our spiritual life too.
God is taking us from conversion to a full
spiritual maturity (Hebrews 5:12-14).
Let’s study the change the apostle Paul
experienced (AA, pp. 119, 120):
The inmost thoughts and emotions of his
heart were transformed by divine grace.
His nobler faculties were brought into
harmony with the eternal purposes of
God.
Christ and His righteousness became to
Saul more than the whole world.
TRANSITIONS
“being confident of this very thing, that He who has
begun a good work in you will complete it until the
day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1:6)
7. Our lives are constantly affected by the way other people interact with us. We
also affect others as we interact with them.
Those interactions can bring changes, either for
the better or the worse. As Christians, we must
try to always be a good influence for others
(Romans 12:18).
Our positive interactions can be a
strong influence. They may affect
the life of others in such a way that
they may Christ thanks to His work
through us.
Our relationships must be always
governed by love and kindness.
INTERACTIONS “And be kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God in Christ forgave you.”
(Ephesians 4:32)
8. “The whole heart must be yielded to God, or the
change can never be wrought in us by which we are
to be restored to His likeness… God desires to heal
us, to set us free. But since this requires an entire
transformation, a renewing of our whole nature, we
must yield ourselves wholly to Him.”
E.G.W. (Steps to Christ, cp. 5, p. 43)