A time to love.
Ecclesiastes 3:8
"IF you will look at our text, dear friends, you will see that it is very ominously followed by the words, “and a time to hate.” 
--We are changeable creatures,and we live in an ever-changing world, and this chapter gives an accurate summary of how most of our lives are spent,“A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which 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 together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend, 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.” Ours is a checkered life, we are not long in any one state,and we quickly change from one condition to another, which is sometimes better, but sometimes worse.--
First, then, concerning CHRIST’S LOVE TO US, for He had “a time to love.”...with Christ “a time to love,” and He came 
forward,and entered into an everlasting covenant with His Father on His people’s behalf.
---Let us never forget that eternal council chamber where Christ undertook to be our Surety and Substitute,and in due time to die for us, “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.”
His death upon Calvary was indeed “a time to love,” for having loved His own, He loved them even unto death.
His death upon Calvary was indeed “a time to love,” for having loved His own, He loved them even unto death.
Now, secondly, we are to apply the text to OUR LOVE TO CHRIST. We also have often proved that it is with us “a time to love.” Our Lord’s love to us is the great eternal fountain from which our love to Him always springs, so let it not be unworthy of the divine source from which it flows.
Wake up all your powers and passions, beloved, while I try to speak upon this lower, yet truly important theme.
If my voice should weary you, let your Beloved’s voice charm you while He speaks right into your hearts."
Charles Spurgeon