For my English Bible Class (for those of us who failed the exam), I am forced to skim the entire Bible over the course of the semester. Normally you hear me whine and complain about the assigned work, but today, as I was reading Ecclesiastes, I ran across a passage that seemed both poignant and encouraging, particularly considering the events at Westminster during the past few days and weeks.
"Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Consider the work of God:
who can make straight what He has made crooked?"
-Ecclesiastes 7.8-13
We should all be finding out hope, encouragement, support and identity in the One who is unchanging and unchangeable. Even if a thing seems to be reflecting His character at a time, it too suffers from the fallibility and sinfulness of man.
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