Ecclesiastes 11:5–We Do Not Know All the Work of God

Ecclesiastes 11:5: "As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything."

This is quite a compelling statement.  Think about it: with all our modern medical knowledge of prenatal biology, we still are no nearer understanding how a human being is born body and soul being able to travel into the future.  But yet we humans have some instinctual arrogance to think that while we do not and can not understand every minute detail of the conception-birth ordeal, we must because of our perceived intellectual greatness 'know enough' to claim to know it all.

But this great presumption renders us, it turns out, all the more blind from seeing the truth as it is: God knows.  This is no mere lip-service or parrot-talk.  He actually knows because He actually creates us.  We may claim biological monopoly over the process of egg-fertilization to birth but when the proverbial rubber hits the road God holds all the cards.  This, therefore, must be the starting ground for all discussion about humanity.  After all, what benefit would there be in the ability to communicate if not to communicate with He who ultimately created us?!