Day 171 (Ecclesiastes 7-12) - Year 4

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.
0:07.0	Today, we finished our 14th book of the Bible.
0:16.4	Congratulations!
0:17.7	And this is the last we'll see of possibly Solomon's wisdom.
0:21.2	Let's look at what the preacher had to say to us today.
0:24.8	In Chapter 7, he urges his readers to take life and death seriously, and to let sadness
0:29.9	do its job.
0:31.9	Even though life is fleeting, there's still weight to the human experience and value in
0:36.7	the emotions that come with it.
0:38.9	He encourages us to wait on God's timing as we walk through life.
0:43.2	Pride and patience are at odds.
0:45.9	Waiting requires humility.
0:48.2	And in the same way that we shouldn't look forward-longingly, we also shouldn't look
0:52.1	backward-longingly.
0:53.8	In Verse 10, he says it like this, say not why were the former days better than these,
0:59.6	but it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
1:02.5	Trusting God means we live in contentment in the now.
1:06.4	In Verse 16, he seems to frown on wisdom and righteousness, but that feels contradictory
1:11.2	to everything else he said.
1:13.0	So what do we make of this verse?
1:15.1	It says, be not overly righteous and do not make yourself too wise.
1:19.5	Why should you destroy yourself?
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