3:1-8
We now come to perhaps the most famous passage in Ecclesiastes, “There is a time for everything ...”. Ecclesiastes can be viewed as being very pessimistic, but I think it is better to view it as being realistic, life without God, a worldview without God is futile. We need to recognise the time we are in. “There is a time for war and a time for peace”. There are some who will never support going to war, but sometimes it is necessary in order to prevent a greater evil. Conversely there are some who seem to delight in war, but war is terrible causing much suffering and destruction, and there is a time for peace.
3:9-14
“He has set eternity in the human heart”. Man longs for something eternal, something that truly lasts. At heart we all recognise that there is something wrong with the world, that things could be so much better. At the same time there is something beautiful about the world and life, things are not all bad. Yet without God we cannot make sense of the world. We should appreciate the good things that God gives us, and appreciate them as a gift from God. God has ordered the world so that men will seek Him (Acts 17:27).
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