A Time to Embrace

To embrace is to bring someone close to yourself, and to hold them close to yourself for a very specific purpose and reason. It may be for a moment; it may be for a lifetime. But something very real and definite is being conveyed in an embrace, and we ought to be able to be understand, when we are embracing someone, what is happening. And, we ought to be able to understand what it means when someone is embracing us. Sometimes we do; and sometimes we don’t. Our verse says that there is a time for embracing, and also that there is a time to refrain from embracing. There are reasons for embracing and there are reasons to refrain from it, and so every Christian should know and have that holy sense about them to know what is the right time and the right place for both. So this is what we want to briefly examine here together this afternoon. We will look 1st – At the time for embracing. And then 2nd – We will follow that up with looking at when it is not the time for embracing. And then 3rd, we will draw a few conclusions.