“A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;” Ecclesiastes 3:2
January 8, 2025
How do we explain those events which seem to be contrary to a wise plan by God. The grand experiment of Ecclesiastes continues. Is there any meaning to life? If so, how or where can I find it? Solomon goes down every road possible to try to find the way to our ultimate purpose in life. Fourteen couplets cover the whole range of human activity. Everything we do. Everything we build. Everything we destroy. All of our responses to other people, things and events happen under the sovereign control of God. Duties are not being described. The fact is that God has ordained the entirety of human experience. There is no chance or fate. But these things in and of themselves do not explain the meaning to life. Don’t despair, as one writer has said, “Our ignorance of God’s ways – this is the vexing problem. God controls our times, but he has not told us how and why.” We are made in God’s image. Therefore, we try to figure it all out. Until the conclusion of the matter, at the end of the book, know this, life is a gift from God (Eccles. 3:10), and it is linked to eternity (3:11). We can go
ahead and hold onto Romans 8:28 (for followers of Christ), time is a call to worship and serve God. Know the God of all our tomorrows. Look to Him for the freedom to accept life as God gives it (Matt. 6:30).
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“Eternity to the godless is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.” Thomas Watson