"God's Wisdom and Ours" chapter 10 in JI Packer's Knowing God
This chapter is a meditation on wisdom from the book of Ecclesiastes. The common error we make is assuming that wisdom means being able to understand and explain why God does the things he does in our world ("Why did I lose my job?", "Why did my loved one get cancer?"). The author of Ecclesiastes encourages God's people to take an honest look at the world and admit that our lives are full of events that we cannot make sense of: a good man works hard and then leaves his wealth to a wasteful son. Bad people prosper while the good die young. Frankly, if we assumed that God always "blessed" good people with protection and punished evil people immediately, we would be undone. The author tried this view and found it to be naive. "I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out" (...