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Ecclesiastes 7.13 (NIV)
Consider what God has
done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?
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| The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.* |
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Usually,
when I consider what God has done, I am thinking in terms of creation or
miracles, but here Solomon is asking us to think about how God moves in the
world. Solomon, while having a pessimistic outlook, still believes in God and
his providence.*
There
are occurrences in nature which to us seem like bad things: hurricanes, floods,
volcanoes, diseases; and if we were in charge, we would eliminate them. There
are evil people in the world who inflict unspeakable cruelty upon their
fellowman. We would do something about them, too. In other words, we believe we
can improve on what God has set in motion.
While we believe
that the prayer of a righteous man is “powerful and effective” (James 5.16), we
really can’t improve on what God has “determined shall be.”* Look
at what God has done and is still doing. Whether we like what we see or not, it
is best to learn how to submit to his will because if God wants it to be
crooked, it will not straighten itself out. And it will be for the best.
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| Man is not capable of arranging the events and circumstances of life in such a way as to satisfy his own ends.* |
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