Trusting God When We Don’t Understand (Ecclesiastes 11:5)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 24 April 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.4 | Ecclesiastes chapter 11, verse 5. |
| 0:07.4 | Just as you do not know how the path of the wind goes, |
| 0:11.8 | nor how the bones of a fetus form in a mother's womb, |
| 0:15.9 | so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. |
| 0:20.6 | What a powerful verse with such imagery again, |
| 0:25.2 | much like we saw in Ecclesiastes chapter 10, verse 1, this is different imagery. |
| 0:30.6 | Do you know how the path of the wind goes? What a picture. How can you chart the path of the wind? |
| 0:36.7 | Obviously, we have meteorologists and other |
| 0:39.2 | similar professions who monitor these things today and explain these things today, but just look |
| 0:44.7 | outside and say, okay, this is the path of the wind, not just what direction it's going in, but |
| 0:49.0 | exactly how it moves and what way it moves, or how the bones of a fetus form in a mother's womb? |
| 0:57.0 | Do you know how that works? |
| 0:58.0 | I mean, obviously, we have scientific advancements that have helped us understand this, how |
| 1:03.0 | God forms a child in a womb, how within two weeks a human heart is beating and circulating its own blood and within a few more |
| 1:13.6 | weeks there are fingers forming on hands and brain waves detectable and like within six weeks |
| 1:20.3 | these inward parts are moving and within a couple weeks after that there's discernible fingerprints |
| 1:25.3 | and discernible sexuality and kidneys are forming and functioning. |
| 1:29.1 | Then a gallbladder, by 12 weeks, all the organs of a baby's body are functional and the baby can |
| 1:35.5 | cry. Like all of that within three months, God forming heart, organs, brain, sexuality, movement, |
| 1:42.5 | reaction, God doing all of those things. |
| 1:45.3 | Like, his ways are mysterious and wonderful. |
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