Daily Devotions
Ecclesiastes
"God tests them"
Text: Ecclesiastes 3:18
THE CREATIONS OF GOD
Only God the Creator has immortality. All that God has created is subjected to mortality, both animals and mankind.
“I said in my heart,
‘Concerning the condition of the sons of men,
God tests them, that they may see
that they themselves are like animals.'”
Ecclesiastes 3:18
1. “I said in my heart”
a) This has become a common phrase (Ecclesiastes 2:1, 15; 3:18).
b) A closely related phrase:
“I communed with my heart…”
Ecclesiastes 1:16