Pastor John, there's an interesting pair of passages in the book of Ecclesiastes.

Specifically, Ecclesiastes 5.19 and 6.2 in those passages were told that God is not only

the source of material possessions, but he's also the source of the power to enjoy those

material possessions if he gives it.

So what do you think this means?

How much of delight and creation is a gift from God?

Is it the short answer?

Yes, we should pray for the ability to rightly enjoy what God has given us to enjoy.

And all of truly God-honoring delight in creation is a miraculous gift of God.

There is much non-God-honoring delight in creation.

That's not a miraculous gift of God's grace.

But if any of us delights in creation at all with a heart for God that sees him as the

maker and sees the gift as a taste of the giver, that delight is a gift of grace.

And none of us came up with it from our fallen selves.

So that's my short answer, yes.

But to the question, what does Ecclesiastes 5.19 and 6.2 mean?

We have to read them.

So let me read them and then just make a brief comment.

So here's 5.19.

Everyone to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them and to accept

his lot and rejoicing his toil, this is a gift of God.

So yes, the gift of possessions and the power to enjoy them is a gift of God.

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