All things come alike to all
Miersma offers an exegetical meditation on Ecclesiastes 9:1, exploring Solomon's recognition that God's works transcend human understanding and that the righteous are held securely in God's sovereign hand. The article emphasizes how acknowledging the limits of human wisdom leads not to despair but to childlike trust in God's fatherly care and providential governance, drawing comfort from the truth that both believers and their works remain under God's sovereign direction according to His counsel.
We saw last time that Solomon has reached a certain limitation in the wisdom he sought. He has just said, "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 farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it out" (Eccl. 8:17). God's works transcend man's understanding, and beholding those works under the sun there is much hidden from us in...
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