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When Life Doesn't Add Up

Sometimes life just doesn't add up. The healthy person gets sick. The generous person gets overlooked. The kid who did everything right ends up hurting. Ecclesiastes has a word for that: hevel. Hevel is not just vapor, but an enigma. A puzzle. The stubborn reality that the world doesn't always work the way we think it should. Here's what I love about the Bible: it doesn't pretend. It doesn't tell us to slap a smile on our confusion or spiritualize away our grief. It hands us a whole book—Ecclesiastes—that basically says, "Yeah. Some of this is really hard. Some of it won't be figured out this side of eternity." And yet. The same Bible tells us that God didn't stay at a distance from all that hevel. He stepped into it. Jesus entered the human story—the suffering, the injustice, the tears at gravesides—and carried it all the way to a cross. He knows what it feels like when things aren't right. And he's the only one who can actually make what's crooked straight. So if you're in a season where the math isn't working, you're in good company. You don't have to force it to make sense before you can bring it to God. Just bring it. He can handle your questions. He's already in the middle of your mess.hevel