Christian Devotional – March 18, 2025

Wisdom Squandered, Day 13

Who knows? Read Ecclesiastes 6:7-12.

As we read through the final verses of this chapter, we start to see Solomon’s whole point. He is looking at his life and his situation, and realizes he has absolutely no idea what is going to happen. As smart as he is, as wise as he is, he cannot predict the future. He cannot determine what is going to be.

As we read this, we can definitely see that Solomon struggled with several aspects of depression. He struggled with that hopeless feeling and wondering, why even bother? As we continue through the book, we will see that he really does find answers and and finds hope, and that is in the fact that God knows what’s going to happen. Even as he asks the question here, the answer is, ultimately God. Solomon has to come to the place where he realizes that he is not going to know the answers and he is not going to be able to have an advanced plan for everything. But he can trust in God, and God is the one who has all of those answers.

We have to come to the same place. Ultimately, we must make the same conclusion that Solomon does. For all of our planning and all of our attempts to put everything together, we have to understand that God is the one who knows how to make it fit. God is the one who sees the bigger picture and moves and works in ways that only he understands.

Are we trusting in God? He is the only one who knows what is coming, and the only one who knows what is good in our life.

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