November 16, 2023
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Reading along with us in Ecclesiastes? Here’s today’s reading:
Ecclesiastes 6 (NIV)
1 I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: 2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.……Continue Reading
10Whatever exists has already been named,
and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
with someone who is stronger.
To Solomon this idea instead of bringing comfort knowing that God is in control of ALL things and He always has been and always will be brought him such frustration. This is again a perspective without an eternal purpose, no hope for life after this world. Funny how the same verse that brings us peace can bring someone who doesn’t have a relationship with God such despair. I would not want to go through this life without God, I could not and therefore knowing He is with me and has marked out a path for me i just need to obey and follow is my hope and my joy!
Ecclesiastes 6
Know one knows what the future holds. Not enjoying the things that a man has worked hard for. Reminds me of a friend who worked for years at post office. Retired bought an RV him and his wife to travel across country. He died 2 weeks after retiring Vs 12. Solomon mentioning God is in control of all our lives. Look up to God about your future plans
Eccl. 6 I did the reading.
“For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?”
Ecclesiastes 6:12 NKJV
3 ¶ If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he
As we age, we often get reflective and we either see the thanksgiving and gladness in what we have seen or the uselessness of it all. Certainly there are meaningless parts of life and significance can never be sustained by human endeavor or earthly possession. It is all fleeting. But people, relationships and the plan of God give many reasons for hope, joy and thankfulness. So on some level I get what Solomon is saying and in other ways I don’t….but I guess I have always have been a glass half full kind fo person and feel bad for the Eeyore’s in my life. Solomon has contemplated himself out of the positive reflection that God’s work in his life should have produced.
Ecclesiastes 6
Ecclesiastes 6
How tragic it is to have everything you desire, but not have the ability to enjoy them. God wants us to have a rich and satisfying life. If we don’t have that, we are not fulfilling God’s purpose for our lives.