Sunrise Church

Life is full of challenges, but God is still in control whether we understand or see it or not.

Before embarking into the second half of the book and the shift in thought structure, a recap may be helpful.

A society, rightly ordered, fears God, honors the king/ruler/emperor and holds money in its rightful place which allows us to live life as the gift that it is with a heart occupied by joy.

The church gives us a corporate context where the world's values fade away and are replaced with mutual care instead of competition, communion instead of isolation and deference and service instead of popularity seeking.

Solomon seems to be saying, “you do what you’ve been given to do and let God do His part.” Man toils but God’s work is already accomplished and everlasting.

Christians, living this life, with all its despair and worry, cannot allow ourselves to be troubled by that which is out of our control, but must, instead, live this life in pursuit of the pleasure of God.

Solomon, though hating life and feeling the exhaustion of chasing after and trying to grab the wind, teaches us that, though life is vexing, it is still worth living, though we will all die, in the pursuit of wisdom and the rejection of folly.

Solomon came face to face with his insufficiency to undo what Adam had done for he was not the promised victor over the serpent, but merely a member in the line of the seed of the woman.

Solomon puts our lives in the proper perspective as we consider our lives, the natural world and history in the scheme of His sovereign plan.

God is deserving of our thanks as the sovereign deliverer and victorious One. In all of the grandiosity of His glory, He still remembers His children in their lowly estate and fulfills His promises.