Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do—do it with all your might; for in Sheol—where you are going—no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.
Reflection vs Hermeneutics
I put this little disclaimer on posts where I'm sure the direction of my reflection isn't necessarily consistent with a exegetical teachin gon the passage I'm reflecting on. I do not know the intimate context of Ecclesiastes 9 and so this reflection in very inra-personal and is not meant to be a point in teaching in any capacity
Finding
Whatever your hand finds to do... The beginning assumes a search. The faithful Christian is not idle... he seeks to do good because it's God's calling on the human life to steward creation well which requires work.
Finding doesn't only presume a search, it indicates finding things on the search... There is no shortage of godly things to do because every single day we're faced with choices that either align or don't with the will Yahweh.
So whatever my hand does in fact find to do I am to do with might...
Lately I have not done what I find to do with all my might. I think God is so good to me, and has blessed me through years of transformation to align more and more of my will with his... but I've been meaning to refactor something at work for 7 months that's actually keeping me up at night, I pick up my phone to scroll when I have a ticket to work on or worse - when I could be watching my kids play. I very clearly do not do with all my might whatever my hand finds to do
Grace
And yet God continues to be good to me. He continues to teach me and correct me, and in this reflection I feel the same consistent & persistent nudge I've been feeling since the end of Summer. Praise God for this nudge - to keep going in his grace and seek to make better choices today than yesterday.
By God's grace, the things I do with my might/strength, he often blesses. And I have full confidence in my King that I will be able to work, plan, know, and think a lot both in this unconsecrated heavenly age as well as in the eschaton. Sheol still holds some power over me, I have been freed by my King but he hasn't yet come back. In the already but not yet the Christian is still to seek the Lord and trust him.
He's been faithful to me - ebenezer.