Ecclesiastes 7:3-4 Sorrow is better than laughter,    for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,    but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. The “preacher” starts chapter 7 off very proverbs like. Proverbs is one of my favorite books of the Bible….

Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: 2 a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous…

We jump into chapter 5 of Ecclesiastes and we see that even though the view is from being under the sun and not living with eternity in full view. There are still things that must be. The “preacher” is not taking the view that is atheistic, as if God is not real, but rather the…

If we ourselves are at the center of our own universe and God is not in sight – that to me would be the picture of what it is like to live this chapter 4. Chapter 3 felt like maybe hope was breaking in but here we are again. Isn’t that just what it is…

We can see from chapter 3 that just because the “preacher” is coming from the viewpoint of under the sun doesn’t mean that God does not exist. We see that God still has a timetable for events and He still has work He has given to man. The “preacher” is not atheistic – but his…

If Ecclesiastes is good for anything it is certainly good for pondering the meaning of life! In chapter 2 we find the “preacher” or Solomon seemingly mulling over the question, “How should I spend my life? And here we find some interesting things. We find his first try at squeezing the meaning out of life…