A consistent—and perhaps reasonable—question that is commonly asked is this: “Why do bad things happen to me when I love God and am trying to do the right thing?”
In the third chapter of Ecclesiastes, Solomon shows that no matter how you slice it, the sovereignty of God lies behind everything that happens.
The existence of evil is one of the great philosophical problems of all time: How did evil come into existence from an all-holy God?
Pastor Tommy Nelson explains that Solomon’s four themes in this chapter are as follows: God is wise; God is mysterious; enjoy today; and rest in the sovereignty of God.
Click here for more from Pastor Tommy Nelson on Ecclesiastes 3
So, it’s appropriate to turn our focus to twelve extraordinary women of the Bible, and what God wants us to learn from them. All these women ultimately became extraordinary not because of any natural qualities of their own, but because the one true God whom they worshiped is great, mighty, glorious, and awesome, and He refined them like silver. He redeemed them through the work of an extraordinary Savior—His own divine Son—and conformed them to His image (Romans 8:29).
In other words, the gracious work of God in their lives made each one of these women truly extraordinary. They therefore stand as reminders of both our fallenness and our potential. Speaking together as one, they all point us to Christ.
As you consider their examples, John MacArthur’s prayer for you is that you will share their faith, imitate their faithfulness, and learn to love the Savior whose work in their lives made them truly extraordinary. As MacArthur puts it, “Your life can be extraordinary, too, by His wonderful grace.”
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