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| Ecclesiastes 6:7-9 |
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Lesson # Eccl. 6:7-9 Study Material - Eccl. 6:7-9 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Eccl. 6:7-9 7 All a man's labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied. 8 For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living? 9 What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind. There are two sets of life within ones own being, at least until faith in Christ is expressed. All people begin their life with both body and soul. Both of these separate components (they are separate since the soul with its resident human life, leaves the body at the point of death, just as it entered the body at the point of birth). The body has biological life, and as such has needs for maintaining that life. Obviously we eat food and such to nourish our bodies. This is a repetitive process. Three meals a day, day after day, year after year - plus snacks of course. This process never ends. There is never one meal which can satisfy all future meals. The appetite is insatiable. Likewise the soul needs nourishment, and as with the body there are good foods and bad for you foods, so also there is good nourishment for the soul (proper spiritual food - Bible doctrine), and bad for your food (whatever substitute information is used to the exclusion of Bible doctrine). We already know that this world is described as a jungle with dangers and enticements numbering to the extent of ones imagination. Also in this jungle there are diverse classes of peoples. Some scholars with high IQ's, some worker bees with not so high IQ's, and of course everyone in between. So who is better off when it comes to the end on each of their respective lives, if they have not been saved. The answer is obvious. Neither are better off in life, because our life here on earth is not our final objective. We were not placed here to become eternal rulers of the universe, to travel to the stars, etc. We were placed here on earth to resolve the angelic conflict - the battle for the soul as it were, and in so doing to glorify God who is far wiser than we can ever imagine. So man has to labor in life, both for the soul, which is generally ignored by most, and for the body, which is generally attended to very well. Sometimes too well. Check your waist line! Actually this body attendance is nothing more than the attendance of the desires or lusts of the soul. The wrong kind of attendance of course. We either want to hustle in life, or not. We either want to accumulate in life, or not. And we want to do everything in between these extremes. Who has the advantage in the jungle? No one. All die. All come to the end of their life and then they are faced with eternity, and the repercussions of all of those life long decisions. Without Christ, there will be great anguish. Without spiritual growth there will be loss of great rewards in eternity. If we were to guide our lives by the eye and not by the soul we would be better off. We would have less misery. The eye sees and is objective. The soul desires and has unreasonable expectations, and illogical. At least by living in some form of rational life there could be some form of contentment and far less disappointment. But even so, life on earth always comes to an end and the eternal life has to be faced. There is no getting around it. If you were destined to the lake of fire, then you would have been far better off if you had never existed. If you are expecting something more out of life because of some unique ability or talent or station in life, then your expectation is wrong. Comfort in the jungle is not a good trade for loss of eternal happiness. Ignoring the inevitable or the obvious makes you a fool. We hear plenty of these 'authoritative' fools on the TV and radio talk shows. Just click over to a good commercial !!! Oh and by the way, questions from prior lessons, a miser is not a person who is prudent in the proper planning of their life, business, finances the various objectives in life, etc. Objectives are a good thing, not a thing of lust or desire necessarily. Just keep your priorities straight and keep Bible study first and daily. 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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