Thank you to Matt Brumage and Renae Phelps for writing the last
couple Thursday devotionals while I was on vacation!
Back to Ecclesiastes…
We often seek out explanations, whether it’s in the
news, with our kids or our co-workers. In fact, three-year-olds are great at
asking “why” about everything! I’m glad my kids aren’t in that phase anymore!
They still ask “why” a lot, but not over and over.
How much do you and I ask God “why” over and over?
He wants us to know Him and ask Him questions, but there are going to be things
we won’t ever be able to understand this side of Heaven. Even the wisest man,
Solomon, had many questions for God that he didn’t get answered.
Ecclesiastes 8:14 and 16-17 14 There
is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what
the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous
deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless…16 When I
applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on
earth—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done. No
one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to
search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they
know, they cannot really comprehend it.
No one can comprehend or explain all God has done.
We are assured that in the end, though, it will go best for the God-fearing.
Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 12 Although
a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that
it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before
him. 13 Yet because the wicked
do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will
not lengthen like a shadow.
We can pray and ask and study the Bible to
understand what God enables us to understand. We can stop the repetitive “whys”
and accept that we aren’t going to get answers for everything. God wouldn’t be
God if we could fully understand Him!
Alice
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