Steve Durand - April 23, 2017
The Better Life - Ecclesiastes 7
If you’ve ever played the party game “Bigger and Better,” you know that the basic objective of the game is for each team to start with a small, insignificant object and then try to upgrade that object by negotiating trades with random strangers for different items that are progressively deemed better by comparison.
Ironically, we’ve adopted a similar strategy in how we conduct our own lives. We all want our lives to be better than they currently are, so we dream about and chase after objects, titles, relationships, and experiences that we think will help make that happen.
The question is, how do we know what’s actually better? Is it possible that we end up settling for that which is merely good, mediocre, or even bad when there’s something out there that’s altogether better for us?
From Series: "The Chase"
This Week's Sermon: "The Final Word"
Why do musicians wait until the end of a concert to play their biggest hit? And why do we save dessert for the end of a meal? It’s because, as the old adage says, you save the best for last.
The same is true in the book of Ecclesiastes. Solomon – after having explored almost every form of worldly pleasure imaginable in an effort to find meaning and satisfaction in his life – saved what is arguably his best, most valuable piece of wisdom for the end of the book. And he summed it all up for us in one important, final word.
