WHO CONTROLS WHO by Robert Soto

WHO CONTROLS WHO by Robert Soto

February 27, 2010

Ecclesiastes 8:7-8 "Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death."

Who can control the air that blows among the trees and the earth? Who knows what the future brings, with all its mysteries? Who can determine when, where and how one will die? I can imagine what was in the minds of our people as everything they held sacred and special was quickly slipping from their hands. The freedom they once loved was going. The grounds they called sacred were quickly disappearing and all they could do was run and trust the One who is control of whatever the future would bring. I could never imagine myself in their time. I would not survive just like they would not survive in our time and place. But we both face one similarity - the unforeseen future.

It was Solomon who looked at life and asked the same questions I have just laid before you. Solomon said, "Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death." The future is not under the control of your hands. You cannot predict or determine what tomorrow will bring. People lie in cemeteries who had all these plans for the future, but they died before it came to pass. Who can control the wind? Man today says he has the power over the wind because he can harvest wind power to produce energy; but he cannot control the wind - only use it to the best of our potential. No one knows the time of his death. These are all things that are in the power of God the Creator. God the Creator controls the unseen things like the future and the wind - even every heartbeat and breath we take.

Robert Soto, Lipan Apache and pastor of:

McAllen Grace Brethren Church
The Native American New Life Center
Chief of Chiefs Christian Church