"For everything, there is a time and a season; go before your season and you will quickly discover that it wasn't your time."
This one, for whatever reason is on my mind. Maybe one of you is subliminally looking for this answer, so here goes. Do you know what it truly means to fornicate? Most associate that term with sexual intercourse between two unmarried people. Maybe that's because most dictionaries will tell you that, but the real definition of fornication is "to take action before the appointed time". The first documented fornicated act took place between Adam and Eve. When we learn about that story in Sunday School, we are told they bit an apple. Well, if it were an apple they bit, why wasn't Eve cursed with mouth sores instead of pain in labor and having children? The worst part of that teaching is that once the Sunday School children become adults, the teachers never go back and let them know that the apple was more like...her cookies! No, just kidding. My apologies to those who are too rigid to get loose with anything Biblical. The fact of the matter is that Adam and Eve had sex before their time. Because of that, the term "fornication" is generally associated with people having sex. It wasn't the sex that killed them, or separated them from God, it was the fact that they were "fruitful" before their time. In the order of life, there is a time and a season for everything. Solomon wrote about it in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. As is written in Romans 8:28, "we know that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose." In the order of life, if you act before your time, your end result will be out of season. If it is out of season, your life will be out of order.
Go back over your situation. Retrace the steps of your life and identify what action(s) you took before your time. Not so that you can condemn yourself or be condemned by others, but so that you can begin to fix that which is out of order in your life.
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