Purposefully Done
What will the future bring?
Will all I am doing pay off? Will I find reward in it?
What gain have the workers from their toil? I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. - Ecclesiastes 3:9-11
Ecclesiastes is one of the most intriguing books of The Bible for me. It provides a battery of questions and comments about life and its meaning, and it provides a simple yet despondent answer.
All is vanity.
Today's reflection verses follow some of the most famous passages in the book, the Time of the Season
which became a very popular song by The Zombies in 1968, nearly 50 years ago.
Right after concluding that there is a time to every purpose, we are invited to try to understand God's purpose in creating us and giving us a sense of past, present and future.
If you think about it, nearly everything we do, we do with the future in mind. If we had no sense of time, would we plan anything, would we do anything?
We strive to accomplish things with purpose in mind, achieving a goal, completing a task, checking off the boxes with a sense of satisfaction.
When the future is unknown, or undefined in our minds, we crumble. Without a clear sense of potential, we lose hope, we become sorrowful. Staying positive requires us to believe the future can and will cooperate with us.
It is vanity, I guess, to believe that. We have no control over anything where time is concerned, but without the faith that we will still be here in the next moment, where would we be?
So, all we do, we do with a purpose. It is all purposefully done and it is good. We are co-creators of our existence, and as such, we are given dominion over time. At least we are led to believe that.
So, let's go with that. At least for today.
More to come...