Welcome to Set Apart Daughters, a proud you will be empowered, encouraged, and equipped to become the woman that God has here to you to be.

I am your host, Denise Copeland. So pumped that you're joining me on this week's episode. I know it's been a while since I last released an episode that is due to a lot of transitions. And, you know, just a lot. Life happens. So, but we're back on track. We're back on here. And I just want to know how you are. How are you? I pray that you've been, you know, remaining strong in your faith, that you've been getting in the word of God and that you've been growing as a set-apart daughter that God has called you to be. Now, in this episode and probably the next few episodes, I want to talk about the book of ecclesiastes. I've been studying

the book of ecclesiastes, and it's just been so refreshing to my soul to really dig deep in some

of these truths. And it's been so timely for me in this season. And I really hope that it is timely

for you in the season of life that you may find yourself in. And one of the things that I wanted to talk about

as we talk about ecclesiastes is I want to just uncover a little bit of what the purpose of the

book of ecclesiastes is. Like we know that it's written by a teacher, right? King Solomon. A lot of

people have different debates of whether it was King Solomon or it wasn't, but we're going to say it was

King Solomon. I believe it was Solomon. And the purpose of the book of Ecclesias is basically

revealing human wisdom and that apart from God, it is vanity or emptiness. So human wisdom,

apart from God, is empty, it's vanity. There's nothing to it, right? The ultimate meaning of life

is found only in a right relationship with God. Some of the things that, you know, King Solomon

discovered was that the meaning of life does not lie in labor, luxury, lust, leisure, learning,

or liquor. The author also realized that a life worth living can be found

only in a relationship with the Lord, like I said earlier. In a life not focused on the Lord is

futile and empty. We know all that, right? Anything, life apart from Christ is empty. There's dead.

There's nothing. There's no life to it. It's selfish. And then ultimately, the purpose of

life is to obey and glorify God.

That's the purpose of the whole book of ecclesiastes who teaches lessons about, you know,

living a life outside of God's present, what that looks like, and then living a life inside of

God's will, which is life and peace and everything else. When you live a life that is centered on God and in a right standing relationship with Jesus,

that's when your life will begin to have meaning and purpose.

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