Today's reading is Ecclesiastes 12 and Son of Solomon 1-4
The depressing book of Ecclesiastes ends with the voice of its author the person who has collected all of these sayings. In a sense it is the conclusion of both Proverbs and Ecclesiastes is Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 "The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil."
There is a pattern to life but the world is broken and sometimes the principles that God has put into place don't work as they should. Yet, this doesn't change the plan of God. We are to obey and serve him and he will make it all right in the end.
To the atheistic critic, this sounds like wishful dreaming. They, after all, deny the Proverbs (God's order) and see only the meaninglessness of life. It is a sad way to live, but those who see the whole picture the pattern and the chaos know this wasn't the way it was meant to be and it won't be this way forever. It will be made right. Our job is to live right and to trust God.
Because if we do and there is no God then we have lost nothing but have lived with purpose. The atheist lives, though, without real purpose. However, God is real and we both have a purpose and a future. The atheist has neither.
It's something to think about.
Now move on to some really unusual (for the modern reader) love poetry, The Song of Solomon.
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