Content with Creation

One of the main themes of Ecclesiastes (the main theme?) is contentment, literally "to see good." Rabbi Jonathan Cahn of Lodi, NJ alerted me to a connection with the repeated refrain in Genesis 1, "and God saw that it was good." Human contentment with their allotment (eating, drinking, working) should mirror God's contentment with his creative activity. It is not what people have made which is good, but what God has given them. God continues to be the maker/doer.

Transcript of Jonathan Cahn's message:

Jonathan Cahn, 11/22/1996  Israel Pilgrimage 1996, Cassette Tape No. 576.
Hope of the World Ministries
Box 1111, Lodi, NJ 07644, USA.

There's something he said, he said, he saw that it was good,
he looked on everything, he saw that it was good, and then
he blessed it. So how do you have, how do you enter God's
sabbath? You must see that it is good and you must bless
it, meaning that God promises that everything in your life
will work out for good if you follow him. Everything will
work out good. The only way you're going to have rest, is
you must see it as good. You must be able to say, Lord I
see that there is good, or I entrust you that it is good
in you, and I must bless it. Bless it, and you will be able
to rest. As long as you worry about something, you're not
blessing it. As long as you have bitterness you're saying
it's not good. God is saying you must look at everything
in your life with his grace and be able to say “It is good,
it is good” and bless it and you will begin to enter God's
peace, and God's sabbath. As the sun set, that's what we
learned.

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