Thoughts for another day

Oct. 15, 2009

Today's verse: Eccl. 3:11. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

We know that God in His time, makes all things beautiful and new. Flaws are removed, the old is changed and renewed and reverberates with energy and contentment. The earth is full of the glory of the Lord and all that He says happens in its time. God also opens His hand in His time and renews the face of the earth filling everything with life and makes all of creation, glorious.

Yes, we know the above. But what follows in our verse is a little intriguing isn’t it? In another translation it says, He has set eternity in their hearts so that none can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end. Yes, it is intriguing and being a little curious I thought of looking at it closer, don’t we all like to unravel a mystery? On closer inspection I discover that there are many things God doesn’t reveal the purpose of, like for instance the death of that woman I prayed for to live and thought there would be so much jubilation and glory to God had she lived. Other occurrences where we pray for something and get something else! This is akin to someone having three choices in a job and fervently prays for one of her choice, yet she gets the one which is her last choice!

My friend, I’d like to tell you first, that God does things in particular because He knows what’s embedded in our future and He knows our past so He is in the best position to link our past with the present and the future. Second, I would say that God doesn’t reveal all His works because they will be too much for us to bear. The human mind has come to be limited in every sense of the word. There’s only as much as we can absorb. That is why the Lord doesn’t load it with things it cannot manage. Therefore, we don’t know so many things because it’s so much better that way and rather than be upset with God that He doesn’t reveal, we should enjoy the present particularly the fruit of our labor which is a gift of God in our lives. Thus will contentment be ours.