Everything Revolves Around God (Ecclesiastes 1:2–3)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on Ecclesiastes 1:2–3, David Platt reminds the people of God that God is the center of everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verses 2 and 3. |
| 0:08.0 | Vanity of vanities says the preacher, vanity of vanities. All is vanity. |
| 0:15.0 | What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? |
| 0:21.0 | And thus begins one of the more depressing books and all of the Bible. |
| 0:28.0 | But I would submit depressing in a good way. And here's the reason I would say that. |
| 0:33.0 | When we come to Ecclesiastes, we read in these words in these chapters a picture of life apart from God, |
| 0:44.0 | of life apart from the reality of who God is, and all that's in his character, his love, his justice, his mercy, his power, |
| 0:56.0 | his wisdom, apart from the wisdom, power, love, justice, mercy of God, indeed all is vain. |
| 1:06.0 | The author of Ecclesiastes says this five times in one verse, vanity of vanities. All is vanity. The point is clear that all is in vain. |
| 1:16.0 | Everything lacks meaning apart from the reality of who God is. |
| 1:22.0 | The world revolves around God. You take away the center around which the world revolves and everything falls apart. |
| 1:32.0 | And so as you read through Ecclesiastes, as we pray through different verses in Ecclesiastes, |
| 1:38.0 | let's be reminded of the God-centeredness of the universe and the need in each of our lives for God to be at the center of it all. |
| 1:50.0 | Knowing that everything is meaningless apart from Him. |
| 1:55.0 | And so let's pray based on Ecclesiastes chapter 1, verses 2 and 3. |
| 2:00.0 | Oh God, you are our everything, and we fix our eyes, our minds, our hearts on you today, and we say that apart from you, everything is vain. |
| 2:15.0 | You are our life. You are the author of our life. You are the creator of our lives. You are the sustainer of our lives. |
| 2:22.0 | You are the only one who can satisfy our lives. You are everything to us. Oh God, you are our creator, our Savior, our King, our ruler, our Lord. |
| 2:33.0 | You are everything, and we are nothing without you. |
| 2:38.0 | And we pray that you would help us to live today with our minds and hearts and attention and affections centered around you. |
| 2:49.0 | And as we do for you, oh God, to infuse meaning and purpose into everything we do. |
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