9 What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.
14 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
God seeks His lost children. It is our task to help find them and call them home.
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
I have a question since I believe that God has a purpose in all that He says and does. Why did God make this comparison of time with a watch in the night?
Having served in war I have a serious understanding of standing watch during the night. My best friend fell asleep on watch and the enemy slit his throat. It was a sober lesson not lost on me when it came time for me to take my turn at night watch.
Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.
Our watch is but a blink of time in His Kingdom.
1 Thessalonians 5:6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.