Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 2 I want to start off by admitting that I think I am an easily contented person (although my wife says I am choosy about the food I eat).  I do not hold great ambitions to get ahead in life and although I see some of my classmates and peers acheiving great [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 1 “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1: 2(b) Alas, we’ve now come back to one of the books of wisdom, written by king Solomon. The book that talks about life and its vanities. And today, we shall look at the first chapter of this book, and I’ll be splitting it [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 11-12 Why? How? I seek to know. Many “whys” and “how” continue to haunt us on earth. Many things remain not known. Life’s 100 000 “whys” – who can answer? What is the way of the wind? How did the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child? What [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 9-10 Like fish in a net When a tragedy happens, are you prepared for it? People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy (Ecclesiastes 9:12). How true, isn’t it? We never know when difficult times [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 7-8 “The good old days.” Don’t we often refer to memories in this manner? They are the precious memories that we keep in our heart. They may be memories of time spent together in fellowships, the initial period after we received the Holy Spirit, or the days when we were motivated by [...]

Ecclesiastes is not an easy book to write on. The preacher states what he sees and what he understands so simply and so plainly that there is really nothing more that I can comment about. Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 5-6 Enjoy the God-given present moment In a nutshell, everything is vanity in this world and we [...]

Although Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are both Wisdom books, you will find that they teach us about life totally different ways.  Proverbs begins with the fact that there is a living God who gives meaning to all of life (Prov 1:7).  In contrast, we see in Ecclesiastes (Eccl for short), it begins with the man under [...]

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 1-2 What am I living for? I thought, to live is to eat. So I fed myself with all kinds of delicacies and yummy treats, I go from place to place and made sure I tried all the chef’s recommendations. But one day, I fell ill and the doctor restricted my diet. [...]