Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, October 7th.

Does life seem like it's full of new reasons to worry every single day?

If you feel that way, then listen closely to this series that will

help you understand God's will and begin enjoying life.

Ecclesiasties, chapter 9, beginning in verse 7 and reading through verse 10

He says go thy way eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry heart

For God now accepted thy works.

Let thy garments be always white and let thy head lack no ointment.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovelest all the days of the life of thy vanity,

which he have given the under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labor which thou takeest

under the sun. What's some of thy hand findeth to do? Do it with thy might.

For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave where

the thou goest.

And what he's simply saying by that last verse is, when you and I die, there won't be the opportunity that God has given us here.

And of course our labors are going to be different from our labors here, and so he's not talking about the fact there that there is no life beyond this one.

And so many things that he says in this book, if you just read it and take it out of its context,

it almost seems to be a contradiction of many other things in the Bible. If I should ask you tonight, how many of you really

and truly enjoy your life? There are a lot of folks that you and I see with a smile that's plastic.

They put it on every morning and take it off every night.

It's all exterior because it does not come from a life of enjoyment.

A lot of people who give you a hefty handshake that is only alive

from their shoulder down because in their heart there's something missing. They're

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