Tuesday after Sexagesima Sunday
Posted on February 14, 2023 by under
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 (NKJV)
11:1 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 Preacher,” the author of Ecclesiastes, would impart wisdom to his readers. If one wishes to be wise, a critical starting point is to recognize how very much we do not know. We are invited to be humble, but humility is not a common virtue these days. People extol whatever it is that they are proud of. They even proudly sit in judgment of God Himself, declaring whether or not they find Him to be just, or fair, or whatever their evaluative criterion is.
How foolish. God knows all things. For all our advances in science and technology, our great grandchildren could one day laugh at how very little we knew. And how much more so with God! He sits in judgment of us, not we judging Him. His just judgment is that we are sinners. In His mercy, He sent Christ to be made sin for us, that in Him we might receive the gift of His righteousness. We do not fully know the works of God; we cannot. But we know Christ, His mercy, His forgiveness, His victory over death for us. That is reason enough to trust, even when we do not understand.
Prayer: 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.
