HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW (1 OF 15)
by Keith Krell
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (1 of 15)
Series: ''The Good Life''
Keith Krell
Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
What is the first thing you see when you drive by a gym like Gold's or Oz? In nearly every case you'll see treadmills. Treadmills burn calories and increase your heart rate. But they're also a terribly boring and tedious way to exercise. No matter how many miles you walk or run you've actually gone nowhere. And to make matters worse, you can work up a sweat and exercise until you're bone-tired, yet you know that you're going to have to do it all over again tomorrow. Talk about depressing!
Life is like a treadmill . . . boring, tedious, and repetitive. This leads us to ask, ''What is the purpose in life?'' Perhaps this question has plagued you over the course of your life-even your Christian life. Several years ago, scientists at John Hopkins University surveyed nearly 8,000 college students at forty-eight universities and asked what they considered ''very important'' to them. What do you think these college students said? Make a lot of money? Get married? Get a job? Buy a home? I can tell you this: only 16 percent answered, ''making a lot of money.'' But a whopping 75 percent said that their first goal was ''finding a purpose and meaning to my life.''
Maybe you're seeking to discover a purpose and meaning to your life. If so, the book of Ecclesiastes will guide you in this endeavor, but not in the way you might think. Ecclesiastes has been dubbed, ''the strangest book in the cannon [Bible].'' It is an enigma for many Christians, for the bulk of this book is the memoirs of a man who is sharing his observations about what is wrong with life. This has led to various approaches to Ecclesiastes. Some have assumed that Ecclesiastes is the philosophical musings of a man without God. In this view Solomon speaks in the first person, not because he is sharing his own philosophy, but as a communication technique. Not until the last chapter does he offer his own con ...
Series: ''The Good Life''
Keith Krell
Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
What is the first thing you see when you drive by a gym like Gold's or Oz? In nearly every case you'll see treadmills. Treadmills burn calories and increase your heart rate. But they're also a terribly boring and tedious way to exercise. No matter how many miles you walk or run you've actually gone nowhere. And to make matters worse, you can work up a sweat and exercise until you're bone-tired, yet you know that you're going to have to do it all over again tomorrow. Talk about depressing!
Life is like a treadmill . . . boring, tedious, and repetitive. This leads us to ask, ''What is the purpose in life?'' Perhaps this question has plagued you over the course of your life-even your Christian life. Several years ago, scientists at John Hopkins University surveyed nearly 8,000 college students at forty-eight universities and asked what they considered ''very important'' to them. What do you think these college students said? Make a lot of money? Get married? Get a job? Buy a home? I can tell you this: only 16 percent answered, ''making a lot of money.'' But a whopping 75 percent said that their first goal was ''finding a purpose and meaning to my life.''
Maybe you're seeking to discover a purpose and meaning to your life. If so, the book of Ecclesiastes will guide you in this endeavor, but not in the way you might think. Ecclesiastes has been dubbed, ''the strangest book in the cannon [Bible].'' It is an enigma for many Christians, for the bulk of this book is the memoirs of a man who is sharing his observations about what is wrong with life. This has led to various approaches to Ecclesiastes. Some have assumed that Ecclesiastes is the philosophical musings of a man without God. In this view Solomon speaks in the first person, not because he is sharing his own philosophy, but as a communication technique. Not until the last chapter does he offer his own con ...
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