#soap # Ecclesiastes 03 ## Title: We Cannot See It All ## Scripture: (Ecclesiastes 3:11) “God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.” (NET) ## Observation: I cannot cook at all. Because of this, the idea of starting with raw ingredients and ending with a meal is almost an art form. Many times, when I look at the raw ingredients my wife is using, I wonder how that could possibly end up something good. The problem is that I cannot see the whole picture. I have to simply trust that she knows what she is doing, and she always does. Our relationship with God is like that. We cannot see the end from the beginning like He can. We may look at the “raw ingredients” currently in our lives and think that God is making a mess and not a ‘meal.’ However, we can trust Him. Just because we cannot see His mastery does not mean all is chaos. Sometimes the best thing we can do is sit back and let God do His thing. We trust Him because He is trustworthy. In eternity, we will look back and realize it could have been no other way. ## Application: Trust that the Lord sees more than you do. Give Him the benefit of the doubt. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for always being trustworthy.