11I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
Sometimes things just don’t seem fare. You would expect the swift, the strong, the wise, the brilliant, and the learned to have an advantage in this life. Sometimes they do, but as this verse says, bad things happen to good people. Being any of these things does not guarantee success or protection from evil. Time and chance happen to them all. There is not anti-aging miracle pill, or diet, or meditation. Some things happen in this life that cause us to question. That is because our knowledge is limited to this life “under the sun.” If your only point of reference is what you know, and see, and taste and touch, then your knowledge is very limited. Even the most brilliant person on the planet knows only a small fraction of all there is to know. And even all they know is limited to “under the sun.” What about the things of God’s realm? What about the realities of the structure of the universe? What do we actually know about that? With the recent news of a particle that might go faster than the speed of light, everything we know about the structure of the universe could be put into question. But that is because our knowledge is limited by only knowing the things apart from God. The LORD knows exactly how all the particles of the universe interact. He wrote the laws that govern them. So when the swift or the strong fall victim to life “under the sun”, we should not be surprised; we too will fall victim to time and chance.
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