Ecclesiastes 9:1-2 — For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
It was shocking, yesterday, to hear that the tiny country of Nepal had been stricken with the second major earthquake in less than three weeks. The first left thousands dead. The outcome of yesterday’s events are yet to become clear.
Some obvious questions present themselves when things like this happen. The first might be “so where was God? 

It’s a simple answer. He was there. God is always everywhere. But His presence isn’t a guarantee that things that we think of as “bad” won’t happen to us. The first thing to know is that we are all in God’s hands. That translates to a very simple proposition — you do right by God and He, eternally, will do right by you.

We have differing eternal destinies, but in the short term, “All things come alike to all”. But what does that mean? Henry Cowles explains:

We may conclude that his mind is upon the unknown contingencies of this mortal state. No man knoweth what is before him here in the line of the good or evil things of this life. Sickness, suffering, the plague, the cholera, the frailties of the body, the infirmities of old age, and death itself—all these evils and the causes that produce them, befall every class of men, good or bad, substantially alike.

It’s easy to live “under the sun” and to believe that, as we can’t predict what the results of our actions will be, we might as well live as we like. That’s not the idea that we need to latch on to. There are two big ideas.
The first is that we have to trust God. We are in His hands, and He will do whatever is best for us.

The second is that we need to do the right thing — without worrying about the consequences. We don’t control them, so we might as well ignore them. Things happen.