Face An Uncertain Future With Faith

Ecclesiastes 11:4-6

Face An Uncertain Future With Faith


Don't fear buying your home. This is the time to act, not fear. I know the economy is not good, but I also know that God is good. You can afford a home, so buy it. Listen, I have a word for you from God. That word comes to you from the book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 11:4-6. The writer of the book appeals to you to know the future is uncertain, not just to you, but also to all of us. No one knows the future, and so we act without knowledge, we call action without knowledge, faith.

Listen to the writer of Ecclesiastes: Whoever observes the wind will not sow. (11:4a) Now the wind is the economy. If you look at the economy you can forget sowing. And so, don't look at the wind. The second part of that verse reads, whoever regards the clouds will not reap (11b). If you look at the clouds, unempoyment, you will not reap (purchase your home). So, forget the rate of unemployment, and purchase your home. Your have a job today, don't look at the clouds of tommorrow.

The next verse, 5, reads: just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.

The next verse, 6, reads: In the morning sow your seed, ( you are young, this is your morning season) and at evening (growing old) do not let you hands be idle; (even the aged must not fear purchasing a home) for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

We don't know about tommorrow, but we do not that God is with us today and in our tommorrow. And so, Ecclesiastes appeals to us to forget the wind and sow ( act:do); and forget the clouds and reap (act:do).

Go in faith, that's all we have, but it's also all we need. Remember, faith without works is dead (James 2:20). You have faith, now go and get your home, your wife, your car.