Ecclesiastes 7
Devotional:
Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies—so the living should take this to heart. (Ecclesiastes 7:2)
Would you rather go to a wedding or a funeral? I suspect that most of us would rather go to the wedding than the funeral, preferring the time of joy over the time of mourning. This verse says it should be the other way around, that it is better to go to a funeral than a wedding. The reason given is that the confrontation with death that we face in a time of mourning is a reminder that this reality awaits us all and should cause us to reflect not just upon our death but also our life. We can try to avoid thinking about death, but we can’t avoid facing it ourselves. We don’t need to fear it but can find comfort in life and death when we know that we belong to Christ. .
Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies—so the living should take this to heart. (Ecclesiastes 7:2)
Would you rather go to a wedding or a funeral? I suspect that most of us would rather go to the wedding than the funeral, preferring the time of joy over the time of mourning. This verse says it should be the other way around, that it is better to go to a funeral than a wedding. The reason given is that the confrontation with death that we face in a time of mourning is a reminder that this reality awaits us all and should cause us to reflect not just upon our death but also our life. We can try to avoid thinking about death, but we can’t avoid facing it ourselves. We don’t need to fear it but can find comfort in life and death when we know that we belong to Christ. .
Pray it:
Father, I pray for those in my world who are mourning this day. Help them to experience Your comfort and peace now and find everlasting hope and healing through Christ. Amen.
Father, I pray for those in my world who are mourning this day. Help them to experience Your comfort and peace now and find everlasting hope and healing through Christ. Amen.
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