Ecclesiastes 2:12-16

Meaningless Wisdom and Folly

Death - The Great Equalizer

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 2:12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,

and also madness and folly.

What more can the king's successor do

than what has already been done?

13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly,

just as light is better than darkness.

14 The wise man has eyes in his head,

while the fool walks in the darkness;

but I came to realize

that the same fate overtakes them both.

15 Then I thought in my heart,

"The fate of the fool will overtake me also.

What then do I gain by being wise?"

I said in my heart,

"This too is meaningless."

16 For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered;

in days to come both will be forgotten.

Like the fool, the wise man too must die!

Everyone Must Die

The equalizer ... Sounds like a great title for an action/adventure movie, doesn't it?

Well, from a worldly view death is the great equalizer. Whether a person is a murderer or a saint, in the end both must die.

This is not meant to depress you or to scare you, just to state a proven fact that all of us must someday leave this world.

But, with God, when all is taken (even our lives here on earth), we still have Him if we have accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior. In fact, our eternity begins there with death just becoming a transition point between earth and heaven. Isn't that a wonderful thought?

When all is said and done, God is all we really need and He can have a tremendous impact on our lives here on earth during this short time.

Christ commissioned us to go and make new disciples of all nations so this is the best we can offer to our fellow citizens -- The gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

Don't let your life soar by without the meaning that comes from knowing God personally. Use your time to honor God and you will find true meaning and joy that can never be gained through wisdom or folly.

Love in Christ

- Bob

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