The Study

Just as you do not know how the life breath enters the human frame in the mother’s womb,So you do not know the work of God, who is working in everything. Ecclesiastes 11:5

Dead flies corrupt and spoil the perfumer’s oil; more weighty than wisdom or wealth is a little folly! Ecclesiastes 10:1

Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun.

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil. Ecclesiastes 8:11

It is too easy to live in waiting for the next best thing. Whether it be marriage, children, or missions, our flesh has an uncanny way of keeping our eyes off the present.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say,

“Better the miscarriage than he, for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.Ecclesiastes 6:3-4

The Lord delights in our humility 1 Peter 3:3-4

I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—

“All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.

Good morning Ladies and Happy Resurrection! For the next few days, we are going to be diving deep into the depths of Solomon’s soul, as he reflects on the meaning of life.