The Tuesday after Sexagesima Sunday
Posted on February 25, 2025 by under
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 (NKJV)
1:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
2 Give a serving to seven, and also to eight, for you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; And if a tree falls to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; For you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Devotion
“As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes everything.”
The dogma upon which all false religions, and all corruptions of Christianity, are built is the doctrine that “you get what you deserve.” Some people believe this so tenaciously that, when they see no evidence of this, they appeal to “karma”. They say that somehow what you do will come back on you.
Ecclesiastes gives us the wiser perspective. “You do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both alike will be good.” We do not do good so that “karma” will pay us back. That would be selfish, and therefore, not a good work at all! We are to do good whether we get anything back from it or not, simply out of loving devotion to God. God can do with that as He pleases.
Of course, we no more say that and immediately we know how short we have come. This leads us to repent, and to rejoice in Christ, who truly did lead a selfless life of total devotion to God. As we are in Him, we get what He deserved, because He took the punishment we deserved when He died on the cross for us.
Collect: O Lord God, Who seest that we put not our trust in anything that we do: Mercifully grant that by Thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
