With Jack Bailey
Scripture Don’t long for “the good old days.” This is not wise. ~Ecclesiastes :10, NLT Quote Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that why the call it THE PRESENT. ~Alice Morse Earle Living in the past is not a pitfall for the young but it is a temptation for those…
Scripture A wise person thinks a lot about death, while a fool thinks only about having a good time. ~Ecclesiastes 7:4, NLT Quote The way of wisdom is narrow and even painful at times, but it leads to a far greater joy than sensual mirth. ~Ya’akov Ecclesiastes 7 in one of those many passages where…
Scripture Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless—like chasing the wind. ~Ecclesiastes 6:8 Quote “I’ve never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man. ~Malcolm Muggeridge…
Scripture Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! ~Ecclesiastes 5:10, NLT Quote We can love money without having it just as we can have money without loving it. ~J. C. Ryle A comedian once said, “Money can’t buy love but it can buy stuff and…
Scripture As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut. It is evil to make mindless offerings to God. Don’t make rash promises, and don’t be hasty in bringing matters before God. ~Ecclesiastes 5:1, NLT Quote Many times our prayers reveal that we believe God needs to hear from us…
Scripture Here is someone who lives alone. He has no son, no brother, yet he is always working, never satisfied with the wealth he has. For whom is he working so hard and denying himself any pleasure? This is useless, too – and a miserable way to live. ~Ecclesiastes 4:8, GNT Quote In a world…
Scripture For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. ~Ecclesiastes 3:1, NLT Quote “You need to ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” ~Dallas Willard I like the NLT’s tranlation of the Hebrew word chephets. This is not an easy word to translate: the AV translates it nine different ways: purpose, pleasure,…
Scripture I said to myself, “Come on, let’s try pleasure. Let’s look for the ‘good things’ in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless {hebel}. ~Ecclesiastes 2:1, NLT Quote None is so empty as he who is full of himself. Ya’akov Solomon had the power and the resources to pursue pleasure to an…
Scripture The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow. ~Ecclesiastes 1:18 NLT Quote Ignorance can be bliss! ~Ya’akov Thomas Gray, in one of his poem stated, “Ignorance is bliss and wisdom is folly.” I altered it somewhat, ignorance is not always bliss and wisdom is not always folly but…
Scripture “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” ~Ecclesiastes 1:2, NIV Quote Hedonism–the gloomy philosophy which says that pleasure is the only good. ~C.S. Lewis Who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes? Verse one says, “The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.” To my knowledge, David had only…