Today’s Reading: Ecclesiastes 7:7-13 7 Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart. 8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. 9 Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. 10 Do not say, …
Ecclesiastes 7:1-6Fill your glasses pleaseToday the ‘teacher’ turns his attention to wisdom, but it is a stark contrast to the wisdom found in the book of Proverbs. Wisdom7 A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to …
I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: 2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honour, 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. 3 A man may have …
Ecclesiastes 5 13-20 Pause & ReflectWhat gets in the way of you being happy? Perhaps it is not having enough time, enough space, or enough money. Perhaps it is something else altogether. Read13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun:wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,14 or wealth lost through some misfortune,so that when …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …