Did you ever ask, “What’s the point in trying? What’s the point of doing so much work since it’s all going to fall apart?” This is what the Preacher is exploring in this passage here in Ecclesiastes 10 8 - 15. Even though there is no promise of success in our labors, he still encourages us to endure and commends to us the life of wise, prudent enjoyment of the work that is in front of our hands. 

There is no greater foundation for life that God has given to us then His Word. When the Psalmist talks about God’s Word he uses several terms including: law; precepts; statues; ordinances; law; commands; and more. This passages gives us a study in how to study and learn to live by His Word.

Being 1 degree off is the difference between landing on the moon, or floating off into space never to return. There are a lot of things which ought not to happen, and many of them are signified by only very small tells. It is then the work of wisdom to watch for those small errors which result in colossal terrors. 

Each of us will face, at least one time in our lives, the sensation of free fall. This experience, the point at which your feet have left the airplane, and the ground has not yet hit, but is getting closer and closer - that is free fall. It is those times in our lives that the Steadfast Love of the Lord becomes more than just a nice needlepoint on our wall.

What is the connection between relationship, trust, wisdom and reputation/ Quite a bit it turns out. 

The depth of the glory of the boundless love of God invites us to stand still in the middle of life and ponder. To be amazed by His overwhelming glory and grace is to know His heart and sacrifice and commitment to those whom He loves.

Life in God is most often about good, right relationships. Here in Ecclesiastes 9:7 - 10 Solomon points to four areas of life that are given to us to be satisfied in; eating, pleasures of goods, marriage and work. But in our modern context, does his admonition lead us into self centered entitlement and not towards deeper relationship with God. We’ll explore that question here today. 

There is a precious peace that can only be found in the comfort of the protection of God. A comfort that satisfies our deepest longings and needs. Even in the midst of our failures and our flopping between highs and lows of faith and falling away - God hears our call and answers our cry for hep and rescues us. 

The living don’t have it any better than the dead, and rain falls on the evil and the good. Even so, there is a double sided good life that God has granted to us. Ecclesiastes 9_1-6 tell us that,first, we are in His hands. Second, he has granted to us relationships which carry forward into, and echo back from eternity.

Whatever we look to to make us happy, satisfied and content has the potential to leave us unsatisfied. So many of us make idols out of the things that we look to for satisfaction, But God alone can satisfy us.