It’s funny how some times we look at things and don’t really see them the first time. But going back the second or third time, we can see something for the “first time.”
Each year I read completely through my Bible. This time it struck me that King Solomon must have been a drag racer—a bracket racer to be more specific. After all, we know that he was the wisest person that ever lived so it only makes sense that he was a drag racer.
In Ecclesiastes 9:11 we read “I 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.”
I might be wrong, but the only kind of racing that I know that doesn’t go to the first person to cross the line is bracket racing in a break out. It seems that from time to time a person can have the latest and best equipment when someone will come along without much of anything and it’s just his day; he can’t do anything wrong. We usually say it’s better to be lucky than good. Yet what this verse is saying is that success is uncertain evidence and that ultimately we humans do not control events…God does.
So be like Solomon, let’s get out there, trust in God, and do the best you can!
