Solomon decides that anything can happen to anyone. There is no formula for making God do what you want. And everyone is going to die.
...continue reading "Ecclesiastes 9-12"Category: Wisdom
Ecclesiastes 8
Starting in verse 2, Solomon, unironically I suppose, is offering the advise to keep the command of the king because of "the oath before the Lord".
...continue reading "Ecclesiastes 8"Ecclesiastes 6
Solomon begins the topic of riches in Chapter 5; but it seems to continue here.
...continue reading "Ecclesiastes 6"Ecclesiastes 5
I'm working my way through Ecclesiastes and (in my opinion) watching Solomon flail between faith and the faithlessness that has come with all of his selfishness and worshipping other gods. He vacillates between seeing the real purpose we have in the Lord and no purpose as he walks in his own strength trying to use God's wisdom without obidience to the Lord.
...continue reading "Ecclesiastes 5"Ecclesiastes 4
Solomon is using his life mixed with God's wisdom as an experiment in search of some meaning he has lost since he has walked away from worshipping God alone. He'll contemplate some portion of life left hollow in his earth pursuits and then briefly come back to the understanding that life lived with God does have meaning and purpose. We just completed the famous chapter three in which he contemplates the events in life under heaven.
...continue reading "Ecclesiastes 4"Ecclesiastes 3
Taking a detour between I and II Kings into Ecclesiastes.
...continue reading "Ecclesiastes 3"Ecclesiastes
I'm waiting on a commentary for II Kings before I move on with the chronological study. So I thought I would take a detour through Ecclesiastes. I had planned to read this with all of the other David and Solomon reading; but the failed attempt at Psalms stopped that plan.
...continue reading "Ecclesiastes"I Kings 13: God Warns Jeroboam
I'm back into the narrative portion of the story of Israel and it's final days as a united kingdom. Or more precisely, it's first days divided. There are now two parallel story lines running. Today I'm going to be following Jeroboam after his decidedly evil tour into idolatry- taking his tribes with him.
...continue reading "I Kings 13: God Warns Jeroboam"Wisdom Psalms: Psalm 119 Deeper Dive
I have two posts in which I comment on each stanza as I read Psalm 119, now I'll take a second look via the NIV Chronological Bible side notes and my Wiersbe Commentary.
...continue reading "Wisdom Psalms: Psalm 119 Deeper Dive"Wisdom Psalms: Psalm 119: 73+
This is a continuation of my daily reading journaling on Psalm 119.
...continue reading "Wisdom Psalms: Psalm 119: 73+"