Hey everyone, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I have the joy and privilege of

praying you through the Bible verse by verse. We've been going through a very rich book, the book of

Ecclesiastes, and just being reminded of vanity of all vanities and chasing after wind and all that

kind of stuff. But it is a really good book that teaches us that everything that the world promises

and the devil promises

seems to be awesome until we chase and catch it and then we realize it's empty. And so my heart

and prayers as we're reading through Ecclesiastes is that we would choose Jesus as that

treasure for where our treasure is there our heart will be also. And he is that perfect treasure.

He is the pearl of great price that we bury and we buy the field and we get the treasure.

He is the treasure.

I guess I could say that 50 times and still not get over it.

But anyway, today I am reading from Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verses 1 through 14 in the World

English Bible.

This is what it says.

A good name is better than fine perfume and the day of death better than the day of one's

birth.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting,

for that is the end of all men and the living should take this to heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.

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