This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast. Let's go first to the Bible because what I have found during this time is that the better I

hold to what I know the more peaceful I will be. This is a wild time. It feels chaotic. It feels like the bottom fell out and

and how are we going to go through this season of who knows how long. And so the

only way I know to do it is with this book.

I have never felt very confident about anything except for this.

And I want to encourage those of you that are here and you were invited by a friend and you're like,

you know what, I don't know if I believe the Bible, I don't know if I believe in God.

You're welcome here. In fact, I hope that this is a safe place for you.

You're going to consider what it looks like to trust God.

I promise not to hold back on that, but I also know that this is a unique time where

if I didn't believe in God, I would be asking those questions because so much is on the line.

And so what's interesting is this is not the first time the bottom's fallen out on the world.

This is not new in history.

Many, many times curve balls have been thrown and the world has been

sitting there asking really big questions and so this isn't necessarily a new

moment and what I love is the Bible addresses this so well. So let's go back to Old Testament

Times and there was a king Solomon and he was one of the wisest men that ever

lived and he walked through a book and today we're going to walk through a

little bit of it in Ecclesiasties and it's the most depressing book you've ever

read. I am not about to make you suffer through most of this book. I want to read a few verses out of it because

basically the bottom fell out for Solomon. Every single thing that he was

putting hope in he was like it's meaningless it's meaningless so the whole book

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