Since the fall of man, the world is no longer the finely tuned mechanism it should have been. Things don’t work the way they should. Even though human civilisation imposes some order onto the world, underneath all this is a measure of chaos. People don’t get what they deserve. There is inequality and injustice everywhere. Terrible things happen to people and it all seems so random. There is no ‘reason’ in it. It can’t be understood or predicted. This is the world we live in and Solomon laments it here. He admits that he will never understand it because it defies logic. And yet, through all of this, we are told that God is at work (Romans 8:28). In all the chaos of this life God is bringing about his perfect purpose. If you are living in God’s purpose then, though you may suffer the storms of this life, you will see things work out for good in the end. How God does this is too wonderful to know. But he does it. He is working his perfect will, even through your mistakes. Bad things may happen to you that you should not try to rationalise or understand. But you can know that in your situation, however bad it may be, God will be at work. The purpose he has for your life will not be thwarted, no matter what. In all this chaos, you are secure when you are in the hands of God.
Thank God for what he is doing in your life at the moment.
Read Ecclesiastes 8:9-17
