CONSTRUCTING A LIFE WITH MEANING (6 OF 11)
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 7:1-14
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Constructing a Life with Meaning (6 of 11)
Series: Ecclesiastes
Robert Dawson
Ecclesiastes 7:1-14
I started reading a book last week entitled, Creature of the Word. So far I would recommend it. While I was reading this morning I ran across this rather odd story about Sarah Winchester.
1. Sarah married into the family that designed, built and sold the Winchester Rifle.
2. After her husband died, a psychic convinced her that the spirits of those who were killed by the Winchester rifle would haunt her unless she continuously built her mansion.
3. She actually believed that if construction never ceased on her mansion, she would inherit eternal life.
4. So every moment of every day for 38 years until she died, hammers pounded on her home.
5. The entire point of the construction project was not to build anything in particular, but just to keep building.
6. The home, which you can google and look at, is now an attraction because it is so odd. You have staircases that lead nowhere. They simply dead end into the ceiling. Doors that open but there is no opening behind them, just a wall. Windows placed into floors.
Much of what was done lacked any purpose and held absolutely no meaning. Unfortunately that describes how many people are constructing their lives today.
1. Every day we are building. With every choice we are building.
2. Every day something is added, taken away or moved changing/altering what was already there.
The great problem and tragedy for so many is that like Sarah Winchester's mansion there is no rhyme or reason to what is being built. We build every day, adding onto our lives, but like the stair cases and doors in the mansion they only lead to dead ends.
Solomon has been teaching us that if we simply build our lives on what we see and know under the sun - without God - apart from God - without Christ as our foundation that the end product will be a life void of meaning.
It may not be common to all people, though I thin ...
Series: Ecclesiastes
Robert Dawson
Ecclesiastes 7:1-14
I started reading a book last week entitled, Creature of the Word. So far I would recommend it. While I was reading this morning I ran across this rather odd story about Sarah Winchester.
1. Sarah married into the family that designed, built and sold the Winchester Rifle.
2. After her husband died, a psychic convinced her that the spirits of those who were killed by the Winchester rifle would haunt her unless she continuously built her mansion.
3. She actually believed that if construction never ceased on her mansion, she would inherit eternal life.
4. So every moment of every day for 38 years until she died, hammers pounded on her home.
5. The entire point of the construction project was not to build anything in particular, but just to keep building.
6. The home, which you can google and look at, is now an attraction because it is so odd. You have staircases that lead nowhere. They simply dead end into the ceiling. Doors that open but there is no opening behind them, just a wall. Windows placed into floors.
Much of what was done lacked any purpose and held absolutely no meaning. Unfortunately that describes how many people are constructing their lives today.
1. Every day we are building. With every choice we are building.
2. Every day something is added, taken away or moved changing/altering what was already there.
The great problem and tragedy for so many is that like Sarah Winchester's mansion there is no rhyme or reason to what is being built. We build every day, adding onto our lives, but like the stair cases and doors in the mansion they only lead to dead ends.
Solomon has been teaching us that if we simply build our lives on what we see and know under the sun - without God - apart from God - without Christ as our foundation that the end product will be a life void of meaning.
It may not be common to all people, though I thin ...
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