"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. Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come..." Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 (NIV)
Solomon, said that good outcomes cannot be guaranteed by being swift, strong, wise, brilliant, or learned. Time catches up with all men, and no man knows the day or the hour when his time will end.
Being a believer in Jesus Christ does not guarantee that one will experience only good things in life. Time will bring to us unforeseen circumstances even when we thought that we were prepared. Every man that is born of woman will live only a few days and those days will be full of trouble." (Job 14:1) Believers will suffer and will not always experience the good of life. (Philippians 1:29 & 1 Peter 1:6) Unless we are alive at the time of the rapture, we will experience physical death (Hebrews 9:27), and no man knows when he is going to die. (Ecclesiastes 8:7 & 9:12) However, it will be granted to the believers to enjoy everlasting life. (John 3:16)
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