Passage of the Day - April 22, 2011

Ecclesiastes 3:16-22

 ¹⁶Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

 ¹⁷I said to myself, "God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man," for a time for every matter and for every deed is there.

 ¹⁸I said to myself concerning the sons of men, "God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts."

 ¹⁹For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

 ²⁰All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

 ²¹Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

 ²²I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

There are three guarantees in this life, death, taxes, and injustice (I added the last one and it is so appropriate).  The sooner we understand that life ain’t fair and we are all gonna die, the better.  Nobody is treated justly all the time.  I am no exception and you are no exception.  We are all going to die.  I am no exception and you are no exception.  If we focus on dust, our works will end up in dust.  However, if we focus on the eternal, our works will end up in the eternal.

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