1415. The Futility of Wealth — Ecclesiastes 5:8-20

1415.

The Futility of Wealth
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Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 5:8-20
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Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out.

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• Begin by getting your heart ready to receive the words that God has laid down for us on this page. Ask Him to give you what you need to hear. Ask Him to give you the mind of Christ to be able to remember this strategy and continue it throughout the day.
• Read the passage completely.
• After reading the first time go back and chose the three most important verses that speak to you today.
• Ask God to bring those verses back to you through out the day.
• Find out if by the end of the day only one verse has been thought about more than the others.
• Thank God for that verse.
• This is a good strategy to use for long passages.
• Be sure to stop and thank God for being here with you today.

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8. Don't be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and the matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.
9. Even the king milks the land for his own profit!

10. Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
11. The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth — except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!

12. People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night's sleep.

13. There is another serious problem I have seen under the sun. Hoarding riches harms the saver.
14. Money is put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one's children.
15. We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can't take our riches with us.

16. And this, too is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing — like working for the wind.
17. Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud —frustrated, discouraged, and angry.

18. Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life.
19. And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life — this is indeed a gift from God.
20. God keeps such people so busy enjoying life that they take no time to brood over the past.
Ecclesiastis 5:8-20 NLT

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