Make It Make Sense

Ecclesiastes 7:13 (NIV) Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what He has made crooked?

Look at somebody and tell them, Neighbor, I’m trying to make it make sense.

Look down your row at somebody else and say, but sometimes it just doesn’t make sense.

Because if we’re honest today, life will put you in some situations that will make us scratch our head and ask, God, what’s really going on?

I’ve prayed, and fasted, sowed, and stayed faithful, and yet things seem like they are still falling apart.

I loved them right, but they didn’t love me back.

I worked hard, but the door still shut in my face.

And it seems like in moments like these, Heaven is closed for lunch and didn’t leave a time of when anyone would return, Lord, make it make sense.

May I tell you that there are some things God intentionally leaves crooked.

Solomon said, Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what He has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived. The book is his reflection on life, its meaning, its frustrations, and its divine purpose.

In chapter 7, Solomon is exploring the sovereignty of God and the limits of human understanding.

He’s saying, in essence:

Pause and reflect on the hand of God in your life. When God allows something to bend a certain way, no human effort can straighten it out, unless He wills it.

Now this verse is not about physical crookedness; it’s about the circumstances and seasons of life that don’t seem fair, logical, or understandable.

Look at the text. We need to consider what God has done.

The word consider means to pause and think deeply.

Solomon is urging believers to look beyond what they see and recognize the invisible hand of God in every situation.

Sometimes we’re so busy trying to fix life, that we don’t stop to reflect on how God is using life to fix us.

He’s saying, take a moment and think. Could this situation be part of something divine that I can’t yet see?

The question is who can straighten what He has made crooked?

The word crooked here doesn’t mean sinful or evil, it means bent, twisted, or difficult to understand.

It refers to the seasons in life when things don’t line up:

A door closes unexpectedly.

A dream delays.

A plan doesn’t work.

A prayer seems unanswered.

Solomon is reminding us that God is sovereign, meaning He rules and reigns over everything, including the things that seem unfair or unclear.

When God allows a crooked path, He’s often teaching us dependence, humility, and trust. He’s teaching us lessons we would not have never learn if everything was straight and smooth.

This verse invites us to surrender our need to his control.

We can’t straighten what God has allowed to bend, and sometimes the bend is what leads us to blessing.

It means:

Stop fighting the seasons that God is using to shape you.

Stop trying to fix what God is using to form you.

Stop questioning what God is using to qualify you.

Sometimes the very thing that looks crooked is the path to our destiny.

When life doesn’t make sense, Ecclesiastes 7:13 tells us to stop asking why, and start asking what.

Not why is this happening to me.

But, what is God trying to show me through this?”

Because God’s ways are higher (Isaiah 55:8–9), and what seems crooked now often becomes clear later.

Think about Joseph, his life was full of crooked moments:

He was thrown into a pit.

He was Sold into slavery.

He was wrongly imprisoned.

None of that made sense, until he was promoted to the palace. Then the crooked path suddenly straightened out, and Joseph it teaches us in Genesis 50:20, what you meant for evil, God meant for good.

That’s Ecclesiastes 7:13 in action.

When life feels twisted, we need to trust the Potter’s hands.

When the path feels crooked, remember, He’s still directing our steps.

When nothing makes sense, God is shaping something greater than our understanding.

Because sometimes, what looks crooked to us, is crafted by God.

In other words, there are some things God designed not to line up the way you expected.

See, you can’t fix what God intentionally twisted. You can’t correct what God purposely bent. Sometimes the crooked things in our life, are divine designs and meant to keep us praying.

Because if everything did made sense, we wouldn’t need faith.

But faith is believing even when it doesn’t add up.

Faith says, I don’t understand it, but I still trust Him.

Why, Lord? Because He’s still working!

When, Lord? In your perfect time.

How, Lord? By His mighty hand.

May I tell you that when it doesn’t make sense, it’s possibly making you stronger.