Eccles. 7:13-14
13 Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
- How often do you think that things should be good for you because you are a Christian?
- Why is it sometimes easy to believe the "good-time gospel", i.e. doing right gets happiness? - How often do you complain about things in life?
- When you complain, who are you complaining about? - Who is able to straighten what God has bent?
- How does this passage challenge you to depend on God and His wisdom?
- How do you feel knowing that God makes adversity as well as prosperity? - Why do the big changes in life seem to be very unexpected?
- Why is it important for man to not know the future?
- How would your life be different if you could know the future?
- Which would you choose as your future: prosperity without God or adversity with God?
2 comments:
Your question, "Why is it important for man to not know the future?" Perhaps it keeps us from thinking we know it all and that we can manage our lives all by ourselves. No matter how much experience we have, or how many books we read, we must still walk by faith.
Thank you Harold! I am beginning to like Ecclesiastes more than I did at the beginning. Keep it coming. I am beginning to get more from this study and I learn a from your questions. I would not like starting my day without this blog.
Thanks for your kind words. Sometimes it seems that this is only for you and me. :) I know others read this, but you are the most consistent person who comments. BTW, Ecclesiastes continues to hit me where I am. Pretty cool for something written several thousand years ago by a man who did not have to deal with what I deal with. Yet God knew what I would need... So cool!
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