Ecclesiastes 9:4-5

For Reading and Meditation:     Ecclesiastes 9:1-6

In this chapter Solomon focuses our gaze more clearly on the issues that are "above the sun." Four facts that every believer should know and understand are laid out. The first is everything is in God's hands (v. 1). When I think of myself as being in "God's hands" I feel tremendously reassured. Matters may seem out...

Life is a precious thing, and in its humblest form it is superior to death. This truth is eminently certain in spiritual things. It is better to be the least in the kingdom of heaven than the greatest out of it. The lowest degree of grace is superior to the noblest development of unregenerate nature. Where the Holy Ghost implants divine life in the soul, there is a precious deposit which none of the refinements of education can equal. The thief on the cross excels Caesar on his throne;...