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Excerpted from: Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 2)The way you deal with it is to make a decisive commitment to cast your lot to live by faith. If you do that, then Romans 8:28 is going to be fulfilled in your life. The difficulties will be there, but because you have involved God in the way that you live your life, then all things (indeed) are going to work together for good to those who are the elect and to those who love God. Is that clear? That is what Solomon is talking about here.
Here is a call to faith. He is saying to you and me that the use of faith is always going to contain an element of risk of loss because we do not know the end from the beginning. We do not know the future except in vague terms. We have this desire for eternity within us. We want to have insight into what is going to be the end of this situation that we presently find ourselves in, but we do not know the complete answer.
Therefore Solomon says it will never work out right unless you decisively commit yourself to live by faith—cast your bread upon the water. Cast your lot with God. Take that risk, he is saying.
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