June 17, 2011 Weird Advice, But True!

Weird Advice—But True!
Ecclesiastes 5 - 8

Eccl 7:2 Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies.

WOW. Solomon is really down! A funeral is better than a party? Is that any way to look at life and the life of salvation God offers to us in Jesus Christ?
Actually, it is one way to look at life. People really do need to know that one day they will die—unless Jesus comes back first. In either case, life as we know it on earth ends. And when life on earth ends, there are two options for the next part of life—Hell or Heaven.
We don’t like to think about that. We’d rather think about it when it’s “time”. But who knows when that time is? Who wants to get to the time of death too quickly or unprepared?
To be prepared, we must seriously consider that we will die and our souls will live a state of eternal punishment or eternal joy.
What’s more, it is proper to consider, “What legacy will I leave? Why does it matter that I live?” To answer that we must know to what purpose God has called us.
Yes, funerals are more profitable than parties. Not because we are depressed, but it is because we must consider how we can live life to our purpose and in our greatest joy in our life of salvation through Jesus Christ.
Trusting Christ to guide your life will give you that purpose and that joy.


Pause and Consider: the purpose you feel God calling you to. What will it take to live in that purpose?