Week 35 Ecclesiastes
I finished reading Ecclesiastes today and one of the verses near the end said: you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.
If someone asked “why-read-the-bible?” one answer would be: to learn things about the Lord. So having Ecclesiastes say that I don’t know the Lord’s activity could mean a) that there’s no point trying to find out about the Lord by reading the OT or else b) something that seems clear on the surface maybe isn’t so clear unless I scratch into the subsurface.
I’ll stick with b) for now. A simple modification of the phrase you do not know the activity of God could be you do not comprehensively know the activity of God. That makes sense since I notice the writer says a bit later: know that God will bring you to judgment. The Lord judging me is one of his activities. Which means I do know one of his activities. Therefore you do not know the activity of God doesn’t mean that I know absolutely nothing about his activity.
I don’t figure the writer is telling me something that’s incorrect – maybe he figures I shouldn’t need to be spoon-fed every single thing.
Anyway I’m relieved that I do know some things. But I’m less relieved that I don’t know very much.
Note: quotes from Ecclesiastes 11:5 9 (NASB). Month-end reading report: 77% completed; 75% of the year gone.