So this famous passage does not contain marching orders for us. It is no agenda. Rather, this is a description of God’s determinations. We are not being told that it is time to sow now, and a few months later, that it is time for us to hustle up, to get out there and reap. We are being told that we have been placed in a world that we did not create or fashion, and that this world has various repetitive cycles, to which cycles we have been assigned by someone else. We are under the authority of these repetitions and have been placed under that authority by the hand and purpose of God.
"this famous passage," i.e., Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
