TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
TO CHEW ON: "Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, 'I find no pleasure in them.'” Ecclesiastes 12:1
How sad it is to be too late.
- You come to dinner hungry and find the food has all been eaten.
- You come to the garden wanting to harvest a crop and find all the vegetables and fruits are over-ripe and rotting.
- You come to a concert and find you are just in time for the last song.
It’s just as sad to come too God late. In today’s reading, we find out when is the best time to come to God.
1. When? (Ecclesiastes 12:1) ___________
In the last verse of our reading, Solomon tells us if we do come when we are no longer young, we must be sure to come “before. . .” Then he lists a whole lot of things: “before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring...etc.”
2. What is he really talking about in all these word pictures:
a] birth?
b] death?
c] wrecked stuff?
In this way Solomon reminds us that the most important thing not to be late for is finding, knowing and living for God. We only have this life to do that. We must be sure we do it before we die.
PRAYER: Dear God, please help me to remember You for my whole life. Amen.
MORE: Remember God – NOW!
Have you “remembered” God? Have you asked Him to be in your life? If you haven’t, do it now, when you are young. Don’t say you have your whole life to make this decision and that you’ll make it when you’re old, after living your whole life without God. You don’t know if you’ll ever live to be an old person. You don’t know if you’ll even live to see tomorrow.
- Find the ABCs of how to ask God to be in your life here.
(If you make that decision, please let me know. I’d love to hear from you!)
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5 comments:
Hi Violet, visiting from Inscribe on FB! Thank you for the reminder to remember. It's so easy to get caught up in life and forget why we're here in the first place.
Thanks Jo! Yes, this is a lesson we need to review again and again.
I like this post because I think often we have the attitude that we can do it later... yet as you say, then we might be too late. :) Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks Bonnie, and for coming to visit:)
Thanks for sharing.
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