Perspective for Life

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Read – (2 1/2 minutes) – “For who know what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?” (Ecclesiastes 6:12)
       Passage: Psalm 85:8-13

         Not long after Pam I were married, we took a trip to see some of my extended family in the area where I lived for the first five years of life. I wanted to show her the house where we lived and so we drove there one day. I told her the house was at the bottom of a really big hill, but when we turned off the larger street onto the house street, that big hill turned out to be a slight incline. My perspective of it as a four year old was dramatically different than my perspective as an adult.

King Solomon went on a search to see if true satisfaction and meaning could be found in life if God was not in life’s equation. He shared his perspective in Ecclesiastes 1-6, that while some things in the world can bring some satisfaction and meaning, without God it is all meaningless. He asked who could know what is good for man, but he knew the answer to that is found in the One who created man. It is found in a relationship with God. In chapter 7, Solomon shares a new perspective that comes when God is in life’s equation. That perspective is always better than the perspective of the world and God wants you to know and experience it in your life.        

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