Everything God Does Will Endure Forever

What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked,

for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”

Ecclesiastes 3:9-17

Scriptures tell us, “There is nothing better for people than to be happy to do good while they live.” Ecclesiastes can seem depressing and is often misunderstood because it’s written from a human perspective, not God’s. The writer, King Solomon, asked, “What do workers gain from their toil?” Throughout the book we catch glimpses of hope. Solomon also wrote: “That each of (us) may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all (our) toil – this is the gift of God.”

We serve a God who gives us good things to enjoy. Everything He does “will endure forever.” As we acknowledge Him and follow His loving commands, He infuses our lives with purpose, meaning, and joy.

The Lord who made you wants you to make Him the center of your life.

Our Daily Bread – February 2, 2017