1425. The Ironies of Life — Ecclesiastes 10:5-20

1425.

The Ironies of Life
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Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 10:5-20
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Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom.
If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now.
He knows it. You are forgiven. 
Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out.

a prayer:
Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight.
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9th strategy.
Read and summarize each verse into as few
words as you can. Goal 1 or 2 words.

• Begin by asking Jesus to cleanse your heart to hear what He has for you to hear.
• Read the passage completely.
• After reading through the first time, go back and read the first verse in the passage.
• Then try to narrow the focus of the verse down to one or two words.
• Write those words down either on a piece of paper, or on your text messages on your phone.
• Read the 2nd verse and do the same thing.
• Complete all the verses in the passage.
• Sign and date the page in your journal, or send the text message to yourself.
• Review these words throughout the day.
• Thank Jesus for the words that He gave you to bring you closer to Him through this day.

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5. There is another evil I have seen under the sun. Kings and rulers make a grave mistake
6. when they give great authority to foolish people and low positions to people of proven worth.
7. I have even seen servants riding horseback like princes — and princes walking like servants!

8. When you dig a well, you might fall in.
When you demolish an old wall, you could be bitten by a snake.

9.. When you work in a quarry, 
stones might fall and crush you.
When you chop wood, 
there is danger with each stroke of your ax.

10. Using a dull ax requires great strength, so sharpen the blade.
That's the value of wisdom; it helps you succeed.

11. If a snake bites before you charm it, what's the use of being a snake charmer?

12. Wise words bring approval, but fools are destroyed by their own words.

13. Fools base their thoughts on foolsh assumptions, so their conclusions will be wicked madness; 
14. they chatter on and on.
No one really knows what is going to happen: no one can predict the future.

15. Fools ar so exhausted by a little work that they can't even find their way home.

16. What sorrow for the land ruled by a servant, the land whose leaders feast in the morning.
17. Happy is the land whose king is a noble leader and whose leaders feast at the proper time to gain strength for their work, not to get drunk.

18. Laziness leads to a sagging roof; idleness leads to a leaky house.

19. A party gives laughter, wine gives happiness, and money gives everything!

20. Never make light of the king, even in your thoughts.
And don't make fun of the powerful, even in your own bedroom.
For a little bird might deliver your message and tell them what you said.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-20 NLT

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