Friday, April 28, 2006
Ecclesiastes 3:9-15
What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away. (ESV)
by Dale E. Rood
Have you ever thought about the order in God’s creation? Verse 15 is the basis for scientific investigation. It is the principle that, given certain conditions, an observable phenomenon will repeat itself. We can depend on gasoline burning in the cylinders of our cars, for instance. We can predict that when we run electricity through our electric light bulbs that we will get light. Truly God has made everything beautiful, but only in its time. It will wear out. But there is something in the hearts of mankind that longs for that which won’t wear out. It is called “eternity.” This longing is what drives mankind to seek God.
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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2008, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.
Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service .
