DAY 33

PART OF THE GREAT PLAN

at THE END OF THE DAY, NEAR THE END OF A LIFE, WHAT DOES A PERSON'S WORK ADD UP TO? what DOES IT ALL MEAN? the WRITER OF ecclesiastes POSED THE SAME QUESTION. the ANSWER IS THAT god DOESN'T ALWAYS SHOW US THE ANSWER IN THIS LIFE. he ASKS US TO FIND SATISFACTION IN OUR WORK BECAUSE WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT IT IS god's GIFT.

ECCLESIASTES 3:9-15

What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his 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 men will revere him.

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; ...