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Bible Passage: Ecclesiates 12 Over the past 11 days, we’ve read about the different vanities of life. How a life without purpose, without God is meaningless and futile. (Sure you might say it had been an emo time. But well, all these are true..) Now the final chapter pretty much sums up what is most [...]

Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 11 Writing about Ecclesiastes 11 reminds me of literature lessons I had in secondary school. Part of our curriculum requires us to “analyse” poetry, infer from each line and pen down our thoughts. Here are some of my thoughts for today’s chapter. Perhaps you could also leave a comment and share your [...]

Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 10 Let’s see what the Wisdom says in this chapter: True wisdom directs you and your way (v2) A wise man’s heart directs him while a foolish man’s doesn’t. It says “towards the right” because the “right hand” signifies a place for the wisdom, honour, power and strength (Ps 60:5, 63:8, 108:6, [...]

If you are in the midst of difficult times, feeling hopeless and seeing all your inadequacies at the moment, today’s chapter may be of some encouragement to you like it is to me.    Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 9 Life = Hope But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a [...]

Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 8 “Because for every matter there is a time and judgment.” There is a time to every matter and a judgment. A wise man knows how to discern both time and judgment and thus able to seize the opportunity. Are we wise or are we unwise? Do we think that all things [...]

Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 7 I have seen how a good name helps in many ways, because it means the person has a good reputation and good character too, which helps in relationships, jobs, and prolongs good days. Then all good days will come to an end, yet there will be hope because we believe in [...]

Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 6 There thoughts for Ecc 6 continue on a similar theme. We are made to question the vanity of having. Ecc 6:2 à The focus here is on the vanity of having so much wealth and possessions, yet being unable to enjoy them because God takes it away. There is no warning given [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 5 It is hard to believe that time passed so quickly and we are now re-reading Ecclesiastes once again.  Reading back what TreasureInEarthenVessel wrote last year on this passage (http://closerdaybyday.info/2009/11/poetry-ecclesiastes-5-6/) makes me feel that I have still yet to learn the lesson of letting my words be few. Go Near To Listen [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 4 As I read Ecclesiastes 4, I feel that it is describing just what I see in everyday life today. Normally I would read them in pretty distinct sections, but this time I read it, I felt that I could pull a string across the passages to talk about what life is [...]

‘Heavy’ is the feeling in my heart whenever I read the book of Ecclesiastes. Especially the opening words of David, ‘Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.’ makes me ask myself is life really that gloomy? But after sometime and after pondering over the facts written in this book, I began to see a light in [...]