Friday is accountability day. The great danger to Solomon was that he had risen to the status of the “Lone Ranger.” There was no one to whom he was accountable. That is a dangerous place.
Send me an email with your status in our journey. If you have fallen off the pace, just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start reading today. Remember, I am on your team, not on your back.
Eccles. 9:7-10 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do. Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun--all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. 10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
Have you every asked God for the “Gift of Enjoyment?” The gift of enjoyment is given by God. We need to pray each day, “Lord, please give me the gift to be able to enjoy this day of life you have given me.” Help me to enjoy the coffee I am drinking now, my beautiful wife and children, the awesome friends and ministry team that surround me, the strength to go out and run a mile, to hit a softball and the job you have given me.
When Christ followers are joyful, when we have laughter and a winsome outlook on life, we become attractive to the world. The world doesn’t want to follow Christ if we look like we have been sucking on lemons all day and are wearing very tight underwear.
The typical child laughs 150 times daily, but the average adults laughs only 15 times.
Sheldon Vanauken "The best argument for Christianity is Christians.; their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians -- when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths."
But you object, what about the economy, the oil in the Gulf, the war in Afghanistan, kids problems, health issues, Lyme disease, disconnections with people, getting older… the burdens of life? Yes, they are there. They will always be there. Instead of allowing grief and bitterness to consume us, we must resist the strong pull towards the sea of self-pity, pessimism and despair.
Life is a gift from God’s hands to be received and enjoyed.
Solomon’s advice for you today…. Have a blast while you last!!!
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