WATCHING THE WIND?

"One who watches the wind will not sow, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap." (Ecclesiastes 11:4)

Here is what I know from experience: Everyone wants to sow and reap something. But there is a tendency or action stated in this verse that would prevent one from reaching a particular goal. Human nature in and of itself is to plant, establish, create, or prepare something in order to produce a desired outcome. To sow something. 

There's the wind though. It drives things away, tosses it to and fro. In my own perceivable wisdom, I wait to make sure there's no wind at the time of my sowing because all efforts would be seemingly wasted. My hard work? Poof...gone. 

But in his wisdom, Solomon says that if we are sitting around watching the wind...paying attention to it, we'll never sow. Frankly, It's debilitating to look at circumstances and use them as a gauge for our acts of faith. Circumstances should never determine our sowing. We must have the faith that what we're putting in the ground will ultimately produce something good.

How about the one who looks at the clouds? How is she prevented from reaping? Clouds determine rain. Rain that waters and causes growth. When there's growth, there's a harvest. A reaping. 

But what's the point of looking at what we can't control anyway? Isn't that a time waster? Can looking at the clouds cause things to come about or make them happen faster? No. But, we know that we've sown in faith. Trust that when the time is just right, you'll reap a harvest.

The following verse goes on to say, "Just as you don't know the path of the wind, or how bones develop in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you don't know THE WORK OF GOD WHO MAKES EVERYTHING." (Eccl. 11:5)

So I freak out because I look at that wind and think I automatically know what's going to happen with the seeds I've sown...Nothing. Disaster. Despair. That's my prediction. Oh those seeds; were they even worth sowing? 

However, if I'm to apply Biblical wisdom, it would be to STOP WATCHING THE WIND! Look away. Let go of what I can't control anyway because it is God who makes things happen. It's all in His hands. Best hands ever if I might add!

Friend, you have absolutely no idea what He's working out. But whatever it is, it is for your good, because you know that you love Him and you are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). Sweet relief!