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Ecc 6:1-12 There is something else terribly unfair, and it troubles everyone on earth. (2) God may give you everything you want--money, property, and wealth. Then God doesn't let you enjoy it, and someone you don't even know gets it all. That's senseless and terribly unfair! (3) You may live a long time and have a hundred children. But a child born dead is better off than you, unless you enjoy life and have a decent burial. (4) That child will never live to see the sun or to have a name, and it will go straight to the world of darkness. But it will still find more rest than you, (5) (SEE 6:4) (6) even if you live two thousand years and don't enjoy life. As you know, we all end up in the same place. (7) We struggle just to have enough to eat, but we are never satisfied. (8) We may be sensible, yet we are no better off than a fool. And if we are poor, it still doesn't do us any good to try to live right. (9) It's better to enjoy what we have than to always want something else, because that makes no more sense than chasing the wind. (10) Everything that happens was decided long ago. We humans know what we are like, and we can't argue with God, because he is too strong for us. (11) The more we talk, the less sense we make, so what good does it do to talk? (12) Life is short and meaningless, and it fades away like a shadow. Who knows what is best for us? Who knows what will happen after we are gone?
If I would have read this passage on my own, I would have been depressed and would not have seen all the good that God wants me to see and understand. A man might as well be born dead and have 100 children because he would get no proper burial... That blows my mind. But he would have more peace not knowing anything in life than living in this world without any satisfaction. It's telling me to be content in my life. Let things go and get on with my life. Love the place in my life in which I am. Live my life for my Creator. Don't wish for what you won't have, you will never be happy. The future is unknown to everyone except God. He knows what will happen. It is God's will that things happen. Everything happens for a reason, not just by chance and I thank God for that.
If I would have read this passage on my own, I would have been depressed and would not have seen all the good that God wants me to see and understand. A man might as well be born dead and have 100 children because he would get no proper burial... That blows my mind. But he would have more peace not knowing anything in life than living in this world without any satisfaction. It's telling me to be content in my life. Let things go and get on with my life. Love the place in my life in which I am. Live my life for my Creator. Don't wish for what you won't have, you will never be happy. The future is unknown to everyone except God. He knows what will happen. It is God's will that things happen. Everything happens for a reason, not just by chance and I thank God for that.