Daily Update #260

Ecclesiastes 5:8-128 If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. 9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.10 Whoever loves money …

Daily Update #259

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.2 Do not be quick with your mouth,    do not be hasty in your heart    to utter anything before God.God is in heaven    and you are on earth,    so let …

Daily Update #258

Pause:  “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’ There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother.  There was no end to his toil, yet his …

Daily Update #257

Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:I saw the tears of the oppressed –    and they have no comforter;power was on the side of their oppressors –    and they have no comforter.2 And I declared that the dead,    who had already died,are happier than the living,    who are still alive.3 But better than both    is the …

Daily Update #256

Today’s reading:  Ecclesiastes 3:15-22 I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. Ecclesiastes 3:18 Few books in the Bible are quite as incisive as Ecclesiastes. Like a surgeon’s knife, the Preacher explores life and how well, …

Daily Update #255

9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than …

Daily Update #254

“There is a time for everything, andA season for every activity under heaven:A time to be born and a time to die,A time to plant and a time to uproot,A time to kill and a time to heal,A time to tear down and a time to build,A time to weep and a time to laugh,A …