Category: Ecclesiastes

Remain Steadfast

I’ll be honest. These past few weeks, well months actually, have been really difficult for me. I have been struggling to trust God in a situation in our lives. I, to be honest, have been rather upset at Him for not working out my circumstances in the way I felt

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The Power of a Good Name

“A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.”       – Ecclesiastes 7:1 We all want to start out well in life, don’t we? If we think of our lives as races, we want to start off strong,

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God’s Got You

I recently oversaw a school assignment with a certain independent child in this house, and here’s pretty much how it went down: Me: “Hey, I’m pretty sure the instructions said to underline the words in those sentences instead of circling them.” Child:  No they didn’t. “Um, yep… they did. If

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It’s Okay To Enjoy Our Lives

“Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God

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Rash Words and Rash Promises

“When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭5:4-5‬ ‭ I remember one Sunday singing a song at

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Pride, Popularity, and the Pursuit of Ourselves

“Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was

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God Sees It All: Living A Well-Balanced Life

“Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead who

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Eternity in Their Hearts

 “What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what

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What Makes Life Worth Living?

“There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭2:24-25‬ ‭ What matters most? Where does

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We Need Not Despair

“So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is

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