Of time and judgment
Miersma expounds Ecclesiastes 8:5-11 to show how wisdom in the fear of God produces contentment and recognition of God's absolute sovereignty over human affairs and judgment. The article demonstrates that true discernment of "time and judgment" leads to submissive obedience, grounding daily Christian living in the reality that God—not man—governs all purposes and purposes.
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time...
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