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God is good and sovereign all the time [Eccl.
3:1-15]
Exegetical Idea: The king knows that God not only ordains every situation but also controls it as he desires.
For this reason, even though he may feel frustrated due to the limitation of the knowledge of the future, he can enjoy his life by trusting the Lord.
Homiletical Idea: Apart from God, there is no true satisfaction and enjoyment of life.
Exegetical Points:
Biblical Theology and Theological Proposition:
True Happiness in God [True satisfaction in God]
God’s Purpose in Labor vs Fallen Toil
Good News:
God uses not only good times but also bad times.
Insightful and Important Observations
Now, the preacher goes to consider the truth that there is a season and a time for everything.
The preacher makes a list of various circumstances in human lives.
It seems likely that people under heaven should know at what time their life is.
This verse implies that everything that one faces would shift in an opposite direction.
For instance, weeping will change into laughing.
Mourning will shift into dancing.
In Jesus’ public ministry, there is a season for death, resurrection, ascension, and second coming.
For humans, there is a season for judgment and salvation.
LEB, NET, and NIV indicate that God gave humans the burden [business in ESV] that they have to struggle with.
This verse reminds us of the fall of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
After the first sin of humans, God cursed Adam to be suffered in his toil.
Originally, labor is a gift from God as a holy way of living for human beings.
In other words, human beings must have enjoyed working all the time.
However, the king understands that toil is no longer God's beautiful plan for humans rather it burdens them.
God imposed a curse on creation because of Adam’s rebellion, so now we experience burdened toil.
Activity and work were not designed to be frustrating, but they are now in a cursed world.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NET)
11 God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.
The first part of this verse seems to fit the change of four seasons.
In addition, the preacher’s observation on a time is identified in a baby’s growth.
God makes a baby fit beautifully in his appropriate time.
Interestingly, the NET has the word “ignorance” instead of “eternal” in the ESV.
This verse teaches that it is silly that one unceasingly seeks to find his destiny during his whole life because God does not permit him to appreciate it.
Human beings have a capacity for ‘eternal’ things, something that transcends the immediate situation.
This does not bring comprehension of God and his ways; one still cannot understand from beginning to end.
Even though one assumes that the king seems to be a pessimist but that’s not true.
He knows God and further grasps what the gift of God for humans is.
Who is this God?
A covenant God or intimate God or the Creator?
The king acknowledges that God is a sovereign God.
No one can spoil God’s work in the world.
For this reason, humans should fear God.
Fear is a required attitude of believers before God.
Also, one thing that believers should learn from this king is to observe and seriously take into account the world.
Brief Interpretation and Meditation
Application
1. Focus on right now by enjoying fully in the Lord in that the more I attempt to know the future, the more I will feel anxious and disappointed.
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Because God reigns every happening in our lives for His good purpose, we can trust our God even when we face severe difficulties.
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