But God is not just concerned with man. His sovereignty extends to everything and over everything. As our Lord Jesus taught, it includes the hairs of our heads and the birds on our lawn being stalked by the neighbor’s cat. Solomon here shows that the lifespan of plants in the field is determined by God. There is a time to plant and a time to harvest. God appoints the birth day of every plant and the funeral of every plant (v. 2). Because this doctrine stinks in our nostrils, we are apt to study arguments to find a way out. But God only promised a way of escape from every temptation, not from
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