When Life Doesn’t Make Sense… - Ecclesiastes 8:1–17

When Life Doesn’t Make Sense…

Ecclesiastes 8:1–17

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • March 29, 2026

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1. I Need Godly Wisdom to Deal With My Own Attitude

“In the world you will have trouble, but be courageous. I have conquered the world.”

John 16:33

2. I Need Godly Wisdom to Deal With Other People

Let everyone submit to the governing authorities, since there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God. So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.

Romans 13:1–3 (CSB)

Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases.

Ecclesiastes 8:3 (ESV)

3. I Need Godly Wisdom to Deal With What I Cannot Change

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

James 4:13–15 (ESV)

Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in your book and planned before a single one of them began.

Psalm 139:16 (CSB)