There is A Season for Everything Under the Heavens

When the Scriptures are used maturely, they proceed in this order; they confront us with a bigger picture than we are used to—of God's kingdom, which has the potential to deconstruct our faults and smaller kingdoms. They have the power to convert us to the alternative worldview by proclamation, grace, and the sheer attraction of the good, the true, and the beautiful (not by shame, guilt, or fear, which are low level motivations, but which operate more quickly and so churches often resort to them). They then console us and bring deep healing, as they reconstruct us in a new place with a new mind and heart. If we seek consolation as the first meaning of a biblical text, we never get very far, because the small self our ego is still directing the mind and heart. As many have said before me, the truth will set us free, but first it must make us miserable.

—Richard Rohr