A Common Destiny for All

Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 (NIV)

All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.
This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead. Anyone who is among the living has hope even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

God says he gives rain to the evil and the good equally. Basically we all share life under the same sun and take the same test as we walk through this life.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 (NIV) The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

For most of us life throws some pretty crappy curve balls, and many times life is not very fun… “Time and chance happen to them all”… Solomon’s life did not end as gloriously as it began and somewhere along the way in “time and chance” he lost sight of the one who transcends that. We all fall victim to random opportunity and failure in life, but the one thing that separates the good and the evil in the end, is the love that God has for those that call Him father. And when it is all said and done, there is nothing that “time and chance” can do in this life that will compare to the life He has planned for you in His house.