We Are Held In God’s Hands

As you do not know the path of the wind,
    or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
    the Maker of all things.

God knows, God understands. We do not know, we cannot understand. This is the uncertain state we wake up to each day. Moving within mystery, God designed us to depend on a day-and-night dialogue if we are to learn to speak fluently the LORD’s foreign language. While we rest and we nest, we depend and we dialogue, Ecclesiastes 11:6a gives us two seemingly opposite instructions.

Sow your seed in the morning,
    and at evening let your hands not be idle…

Walking into unknown territory, we are to sow and to let go, each and every morning. As if reaching into the pouch secured on our hip, like a sower we prayerfully scatter the seeds that are ours to sow. We take a big handful and we throw and let go, fully trusting that these seeds of possibility will land where God lands them, will grow if God grows them. At the same time, we are told to grab hold of the moment, not to sit idle, keeping our hands busy with the people, the priorities, and the purposes of God. We touch and we tend. We hold and we mold. We kneed and we nurture. What we are able to do we diligently do, nestled within our dependent state, not knowing the outcome of the time and talent we invest. In Ecclesiastes 11:6b, God’s enduring truth is reiterated again.

…for you do not know which will succeed,
    whether this or that,
    or whether both will do equally well.