• Ecclesiastes 3:1-14
  To everything there is a season,
  A time for every purpose under heaven:
  A time to be born, And a time to die;
  A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;
  A time to kill, And a time to heal;
  A time to break down, And a time to build up;
  A time to weep, And a time to laugh;
  A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
  A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones;
  A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
  A time to gain, And a time to lose;
  A time to keep, And a time to throw away;
  A time to tear, And a time to sew;
  A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
  A time to love, And a time to hate;
  A time of war, And a time of peace. What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
  I know that whatever God does,
  It shall be forever.
  Nothing can be added to it,
  And nothing taken from it.
  God does it, that men should fear before Him.
  
   

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• Deuteronomy 8:2
  And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
   
• Ecclesiastes 2:24
  Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
   
• Matthew 6:24
  “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
   
• John 15:5
  "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:4
  There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
   
• 2 Peter 3:9
  The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
   
• 1 John 2:17
  And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
   
• Genesis 45:5-8
  But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.