“He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11 AMP
https://bible.com/bible/1588/ecc.3.11.AMP
This passage follows the well know passage in Ecclesiastes 3 about a time for everything. When you get past that passage you find verse 11 that starts with reminding us that God made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. That’s hard to comprehend, especially when you experience disappointment and loss. Some days it’s hard to trust the process-that everything will work together for good (Romans 8:28). In this fallen world, we can’t make sense of things that happen because Satan is working against us. He doesn’t want God’s overall plan to be fulfilled. It’s those times we become discouraged and begin to lose hope that things will be good again. When reading the verse closely, it says that God put in us a desire that nothing can fulfill except Him. It’s in those times of trials that we can feel lost because we get distracted from God’s plan. The best way to get back on track is to seek Him to refocus on the plan that He has for us. Unfortunately, we can’t know what that plan is. The verse ends by saying we can’t comprehend what God has for us. I like to think that’s because what He has planned for us is bigger and more grand than anything we could ever dream up ourselves, as seen in the following verse:
“Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
Ephesians 3:20 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/eph.3.20.NLT
We will survive the struggles and times we doubt God’s purpose or timing in our lives. We can thrive when we trust His process and know that all things will be revealed just in time!
Nae's Notes 