Ecclesiastes 9: 1 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2 It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked,…

Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is like the wise?    And who knows the interpretation of a thing?A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,    and the hardness of his face is changed. Have you ever been around a fool? One who does not have common sense and who does the strangest things because they don’t know any better. When I was…

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…