Mysterious Musings

Part 11
Going through life without living should not be the christian way of life.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-18

Something UNDENIABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God:

Something UNPREDICTABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:1b NIV
…but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.

Something UNAVOIDABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:2a
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked;

Ecclesiastes 9:2b
to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinnerand he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.  

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead

Something UNACCEPTABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope:  for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Something UNTHINKABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.  Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 

Something UNFORGIVABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Ecclesiastes 9:8
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Something UNEXPLAINABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:11
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but TIME AND CHANCE happeneth to them all.

Something UNEXPECTED

Ecclesiastes 9:12
12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net,  and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Something UNFORGETTABLE

Ecclesiastes 9:17-18
The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

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