“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath
set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God
maketh from the beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
People
will never understand God until they understand the sovereignty of God. God is
not God unless He is Sovereign! And here we have people that call themselves
Christians, attending worship every time the doors are open, and men filling
pulpits trying to teach as though they know God. They give God no credit for
anything and say ignorant things like “God cannot change mans will.” They teach
as though man has an option to be a believer or not, they treat salvation as
though it can be had at will. People need to listen to the scriptures and hear
what they say, because what you hear in most pulpits is not the bible doctrine.
Solomon writes that “He hath made every
thing beautiful in his time…” that is time of his choosing. Solomon also
wrote in Ecclesiastes 7:29 “Lo, this
only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out
many inventions.” God created man upright, that is in a holy way, but man polluted
it when he ate of the forbidden fruit. Man (Adam) began to think for himself
and everything he though or did was anti-God. Here in the Twenty-First Century
man has totally eliminated God from everything. Forgetting God is sovereign and
that He controls everything. However, everything will be beautiful when God has
chosen for it to be. God has ordained the happenings of this world and when He
is ready to fix mans sinful ways, He will make man beautiful again, holy again,
and like unto His blessed image again, in God’s time. Listen to these wonderful
words, “He is the Rock, his work is
perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is he.” Deuteronomy 32:4 The word “rock” is - a word that
is expressive of power and stability – because of His Sovereignty. God is a God
of truth and righteousness. He is eternity, never beginning and never ending.
Since all things were created by Him, He has the right to use it as he pleases,
God owes His creation nothing. God has a right to choose Jacob over Esau, He
had a right to choose Israel as His chosen Nation over all other Nations, and
He has a right to elect the saved in this world over the lost. Paul asked this
question, “Hath not the potter power over
the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto
dishonour?” Romans 9:21. Does He actually elect, the bible says He
does, man has no right to force God to save them and make them His child. Deuteronomy
said, “a God of truth and without
iniquity, just and right is he.” Meaning that, what God elects to do, it is
always right and without iniquity. Solomon told us in out text scripture “…that no man can find out the work that God
maketh from the beginning to the end…” but God knows His work from eternity
past to eternity future, because with God there is neither He is “I AM”. It is
man that is wrong, their thinking is polluted with selfishness, therefore their
thinking is “self”. Paul put it this way, “Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” Romans 1:25 Worship
is designed to glory man and not God, only in a church of sovereign grace will
you find God, not man worshiped and gloried. We are not going to do anything
that God has not foreordained, or predestinated. We will never understand what
God is doing until it is accomplished. Solomon wrote “…so that no man can find out the work that God maketh…” He also
wrote “Then I beheld all the work of God,
that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though
a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a
wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.” Ecclesiastes
8:17 Unless God reveals His doings we will not know what He has done
unless we believe in a Sovereign God. Sometimes we fail to see that God judges
the people and the actions of this world, and people fail to see it because
they think “my God would never do such a thing”. How do you know what God would
do? God destroyed this world and the population of it with a flood. God allowed
Satan to destroy everything Job had and kill his children. Let us understand
the example of Satan in Job is that, Satan nor any other being acts without God’s
permission. Therefore, everything must be linked back to God or God’s will. In conclusion,
read the first eight verses of Ecclesiastes 3 where it speaks of “A Season for
Everything”. The word “season” means - an appointed occasion – which means God
appointed it to be. God has appointed your birth and your death, “Seeing his days are determined, the number
of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:5. We were born and we will die as The Sovereign God of the universe has
elected. Also, everything in between birth and death is of Gods choosing. Esau
was born to for God to hate, Judas Iscariot was born to betray Jesus, Satan was
created to be evil and to bring evil to the world, and so-forth-and-so-on. But
in all of this you see God’s sovereignty, unless you are blind from seeing it.
Everything really is for God’s glory and will, and His will shall be done, and
it will be right, just and to His glory. “The
glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works…He
looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke…I
will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I
have my being.” Psalms 104:31 - 33
