Ecclesiastes 11 ~ The grace of God

Ecclesiastes 11

Cast your bread upon the waters,
for you will find it after many days.

2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,
for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain,
they empty themselves on the earth,
and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow,
and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

5 As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

7 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

8 So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

10 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Other interpretations say "Ship your grain across the sea;
after many days you may receive a return."

Cast your bread upon the waters is more of what Elisha did to see if he had obtained Elijah's Blessing from God. We put our hand to our job - our task - and grow more self controlled. More mature, More steady. Older. 

A gamble to place your trust other than in Jesus. God providing a path for us every day. Letting God sustain us. Jesus calms the wind and the waves. Jesus is God.  Jesus, we pray every day, to direct our lives in His Will.

This involves how we will treat one another.

This Scripture Passage is excellent to explain the Vast Encompassing of the Holy Spirit sent to dwell inside of those who believe Jesus is Lord. Solomon is considered to be the Wisest of all Kings. And he explains the lack of hope in Sheol. A place of the dead.

Life is vanity without the hope Jesus gives us. This passage clearly shows in King Solomon the difference of the old Sheol. The people fighting like the Pharisees and Sadducees over a hope and a future.  The meaningless of life. In Jesus, we are the Easter People. The Beloved of God who believe Jesus has come and has set us Free in Him.

Holy Week. Jesus is our Victory over Death and Sin - Jesus changed the World.

1 Corinthians 15

The grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, 
that God may be all in all.

Jesus the Lord, our Victory.

Jeremiah 12
15 And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land. 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves ♰

Colossians 1:27
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.





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