March 15, 2018-Thursday-#647 Daily Morning Bible Reading and Meditation - Ecclesiastes 9 KJV
*** Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. ***
[2] All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
[3] This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
[4] For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
[7] Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
[8] Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
[9] Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
[10] Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Words to ponder for today:
...For GOD Now Accepted Thy Works
There is no doubt that what the Wise Preacher said, is true: Nobody knows what is before man, whether he be good or bad, wise or foolish, righteous or evil, neither they know what awaits ahead of them.
All lack discernment between love and hatred from all people around them whether they have had for them; it is only GOD who knows, even the works of their hands are in GOD’s hand; whether He will blessed them or not.
For there are righteous whose works are righteousness, who in return reap evil and madness; and there are foolish and unrighteous persons whose works and deeds are evil, yet reap goodness and applause from others.
However, man cannot know God’s disposition by observation since the same calamities strike both the wicked and the righteous. Both shall come to die, yet in GOD’s perfect time.
Truly, without God, man does not have the power to tell the difference between love and hate. Everything that man is, God created him to be. Solomon is wise, because God gave him wisdom. The same way, that; even the breath that we take is by permission of God.
All of our understanding, which sometimes we claimed to be our own, is by the Holy Spirit of God revealing it to us. Solomon had searched the world over to find out what life is. He came back to the conclusion he started with. God is all in all. There are no solutions aside from God.
Like Solomon, the thinker, when he has come to the end of his earthly wisdom, no smarter than when he began; we all may think of ourselves to be wise, yet we are like sheep that must have a Shepherd to lead us in this journey of life.
We should accept the fact that we have but very little power to direct our lives, so much less that we cannot determine the day of our death.
The only thing we can do is what the preacher recommended for each of us to do:
[7] Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
[10] Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
And for all the husband and a husband to be:
[9] Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
It is nonsense to stress too much our mind to think of the unthinkable, to search for the unsearchable, to change the unchangeable; we should all come to agree that all things has an end, even our pilgrimage on this earth.
So therefore, we should go our way, eat the bread, drink the wine and be merry in heart. But rest assured that we keep our garments white and our head anointed with oil, as the Preacher admonished us.
[8] Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
For we believers of GOD through the Name Of JESUS Christ are expected to keep our garments pure and white, which is the outward appearance of our daily lives while we work the works and walk the walks according as GOD had commanded us. And let our head be not lack with precious ointment, The enlightening wisdom from The Holy Spirit which keeps us shining, through the knowledge and by the power of GOD’s holy word.
If we did so, the walks of our feet and the works of our hands will be acceptable unto GOD. As it is written by Apostle Paul in :
Colossians 1:10-12 KJV
[10] That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
[11] Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
[12] Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Ecclesiastes 9:1-18 KJV
[1] For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. [2] All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. [3] This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. [4] For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. [5] For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. [6] Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. [7] Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. [8] Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. [9] Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. [10] Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. [11] I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [12] For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. [13] This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: [14] There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: [15] Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. [16] Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. [17] The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. [18] Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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