Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Ecclesiastes 3:9-15
by: Dale Rood.
The reason mankind experiences futility in so much of life is that in his heart he knows there is more. Verse 11 says God has put eternity in his heart. How should we respond? Not by trying to figure out how to control the things God has reserved for himself. We need to leave those things to God (v. 14). The solution is to do good with what we do have and rejoice in that (v. 12). The satisfaction gained from fulfillment in that which God gives us is itself a gift from God (v. 13).