Good Morning “Destined.” Today we are in Ecclesiastes 7.
Who likes weddings? Raise your hand! Who likes funerals? Wait, that’s a crazy question… right? No one likes funerals. Funerals are hard - super hard!
Death is Certain. It’s been a fact of life since Adam and Eve chose to sin in the garden. It doesn’t feel right… because it shouldn’t. We were created for life, not death. Sin brought, and leads to death - but we don’t like to think about that part. Solomon the wisest man that ever lived suggests that we should. "It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.” Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
It's better because it’s in those moments that we’re forced to take a look at our life. Take inventory. We realize how precious life is. Not to achieve and store up treasures here but to make an eternal difference - for the Kingdom. You know, when preparing a memorial service, no loved one has ever asked me to talk about all the money the deceased made. They want me to speak of the legacy left behind, the difference they made - really those things with Kingdom significance. It's in those times that we are reminded to make the most of every day we have.
It's also through the toughest of times that we get to experience a level of comforting from God, we wouldn’t otherwise. In fact, we get to experience His comfort filling us to the point that it overflows into our ability to comfort others. Check it out:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 NIV
Love you all! Dig in!
Who likes weddings? Raise your hand! Who likes funerals? Wait, that’s a crazy question… right? No one likes funerals. Funerals are hard - super hard!
Death is Certain. It’s been a fact of life since Adam and Eve chose to sin in the garden. It doesn’t feel right… because it shouldn’t. We were created for life, not death. Sin brought, and leads to death - but we don’t like to think about that part. Solomon the wisest man that ever lived suggests that we should. "It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.” Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
It's better because it’s in those moments that we’re forced to take a look at our life. Take inventory. We realize how precious life is. Not to achieve and store up treasures here but to make an eternal difference - for the Kingdom. You know, when preparing a memorial service, no loved one has ever asked me to talk about all the money the deceased made. They want me to speak of the legacy left behind, the difference they made - really those things with Kingdom significance. It's in those times that we are reminded to make the most of every day we have.
It's also through the toughest of times that we get to experience a level of comforting from God, we wouldn’t otherwise. In fact, we get to experience His comfort filling us to the point that it overflows into our ability to comfort others. Check it out:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 NIV
Love you all! Dig in!
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