“When I determined to load up on wisdom and examine everything taking place on earth, I realized that if you keep your eyes open day and night without even blinking, you’ll still never figure out the meaning of what God is doing on this earth. Search as hard as you like, you’re not going to make sense of it. No matter how smart you are, you won’t get to the bottom of it.” (Ecclesiastes 8:16–17, The Message)
These verses highlight the whole theme of Ecclesiastes; if one looks high and low and searches with all of his might and strains hard to understand, one will not be able to figure out the meaning of what God is doing on this earth. Why do evil people appear to flourish and Christians do not? Why does a tsunami kill 250,000 people in a matter of hours? Why do wicked people keep gaining control of nations and oppressing their citizens? We could go on and on, but you get the point; God's way of working in the world is most mysterious and try as one might—and Solomon certainly tried—one cannot discover the "secret" to the way that God runs the world.
Fortunately, for us we do know God's ultimate end for the world, which is to collect a people to himself by the righteousness of Christ imputed to sinners. Meanwhile, we must just trust.
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