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Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
Excerpted from: The Fear of GodAgain, how can we learn to fear God? In the book of Ecclesiastes we read about how there are specific times for this and that - a time to be born, a time to die; a time to kill, a time to heal; and so forth.
Men search for these things and are aware that there is a God who is Creator, as Romans 1 so clearly shows. And we know from our own experiences that there are multitudes out there in the public who believe that God exists. But how many of those know the purpose that God is working out? The closest they have been able to come is that they believe people are going to go off to heaven when they die. That is not the purpose God is working out. It is so much more majestic and so much grander and more glorious than that. There is no comparison between the truth and that which man has concocted! People do not seem to understand the connection between God's purpose and what our lives are right now, either.
What are we supposed to do with what we understand? They do not understand that God is on a character-building campaign (if I can put it that way). And that character-building campaign requires our cooperation with Him. That is what Solomon and God suggest here, that no one can find out the work that God does from the beginning. Do you know why? It is because they do not fear Him! The fear of God is something that must be given; it is something that must be instilled within a person - and it must be instilled by God.
This is why we should be able to fear; this is where it all begins for you and me. The fear is caused to be in us by virtue of the fact that God has given us the ability to recognize His power (which none can resist), His holiness and justice (which no one can satisfy), and His wisdom (which none can attain to). This is something that we have been given.
It is not in the world! If it was in the world, they would know it, too. But the evidence remains that they do not know what it is that God is working out. We see that men have a form of godliness, but deny the power. God is not really a part of their lives even though they recognize that there is a Creator. They do not understand His wisdom and they do not understand His justice. All of these are evidenced in the doctrines of the churches out there.
We have what we have; and what we have is a fear that has been instilled within us as a result of the calling of God. This may come about as a result of the observation of God's creation. It may come about because of deducing that there is a purpose that is being worked out. But however it comes, there is a fear in the form of awareness, recognition, or apprehension which compels acceptance and submission. But we must choose.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Excerpted from: Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 2)We can see that. A beautiful flower comes out, but it is only beautiful for a little while. It is beautiful for a while, but not always. Now here comes the catcher:
So he says that even though things are beautiful—and in an overall sense he means life is beautiful—it is perplexing because we cannot figure out what God is doing. We have a deep desire to understand the beginning from the end. Do you not like to know how things are going to end? Everybody wants that. Everybody would like to know a little bit about what lies ahead in the future for them. But we cannot know, so life has its perplexing aspect to it.
Maybe what we want is to have insight into a sense of something that transcends our immediate situation. But we are left without really knowing all we want to know about the future as it relates to right now and what we are going through.
Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
Excerpted from: God's Promise of RestAnd so we can start to see here the curse of that burdensome work and toil is, in the end, a gift and a blessing from God, but to find true satisfaction and fulfillment, we must look above the sun to the Almighty Creator God, who knows the beginning and the end, and who is working from the beginning to the end to create us in His image. We must live daily by faith, spending our time each day with Him, building that relationship with Him so that we could come to know Him and His way of life. We must trust Him through the many struggles and difficulties in this life. We will find no rest under the sun, but there is a promise of rest, here and now into the future.
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