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June 13 - Ecclesiastes 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. Sean here.
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  It's a Thursday. It is the 13th of June.
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  Hello. I hope you're going well because
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  here we are getting closer to the end of another week.
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  It's Thursday and today we are going to evoke the spirit of
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  Alanis Morissette. Yes, today we are going to talk
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  all about irony. Isn't it ironic?
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  Remember that song from the 90s? It was huge.
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  Or maybe you weren't around in the 90s, in which case you can
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  look it up. It's quite an ironic song, pun
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  intended. And here we are listening to the
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  author of Ecclesiastes, who is going to give us his very own
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  version of that song, sharing a number of ironic paradoxes from
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  life. So this is a wonderful chapter.
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  So read it together. Yes, we shall.
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  You ready? Great.
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  Me too. Let us read together
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  Ecclesiastes chapter 10. As dead flies cause even a
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  bottle of perfume to stink, so a little foolishness spoils great
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  wisdom and honour. A wise person chooses the right
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  Rd, a fool takes the wrong one. You can identify fools just by
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  the way they walk down the street.
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  If your boss is angry at you, don't quit.
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  A quiet spirit can overcome even great mistakes.
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  There is another evil I've seen under the sun.
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  Kings and rulers make a grave mistake when they give greater
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  authority to foolish people and low positions to people of
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  proven worth. I have seen servants riding
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  horseback like princesses, and princes walking like servants.
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  When you dig a well, you might fall in.
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  When you demolish an old wall, you could be bitten by a snake.
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  When you work in a quarry, stones might fall and crush you.
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  When you chop wood, there is danger with each stroke of your
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  axe. Using a dull axe requires great
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  strength. So sharpen the blade.
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  That's the value of wisdom. It helps you succeed if a snake
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  bites before you charm it. What's the use of being a snake
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  charmer? Wise words bring approval, but
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  fools are destroyed by their own words.
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  Fools base their thoughts on foolish assumptions, so their
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  conclusions will be wicked madness.
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  They chatter on and on. No one really knows what is
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  going to happen. No one can predict the future.
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  Fools are so exhausted by little work that they can't even find
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  their way home. Watch sorrow for the land ruled
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  by a servant, the land whose leaders feast in the morning.
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  Happy is the land whose king is a noble leader and whose leaders
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  feast at the proper time to gain strength for their work, not to
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  get drunk. Laziness leads to a sagging
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  roof. Idleness leads to a leaky house,
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  a party gives laughter, wine gives happiness, and money gives
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  everything. Never make light of the king
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  even in your thoughts, and don't make fun of the powerful even in
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  your own bedroom, for a little bird might deliver your message
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  and tell them what you said. Lord, the author of Ecclesiastes
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  makes us so clear that we are to be the same wherever we are,
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  whoever we're speaking with, or even when we buy ourselves.
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  Lord, what wonderful advice and what a wonderful model we have
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  in you. You who are so consistent, Your
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  yes means yes and your no means no, and your ways stretch
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  forward and backward through time till eternity, and you
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  never change. Thank you that we can depend
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  wholeheartedly and entirely on you and everything you say,
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  because your words are truth. Help us similarly to be people
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  of consistency and trustworthiness so that those
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  who know us will ask why it is that our words are so consistent
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  and that we don't say one thing and then do another.
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  And then we can point them back to you and say, well, I serve a
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  God who is way better than this than I am, so that we can give
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  you the glory, because all glory belongs to you, Lord.
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  So shape us and make us more like you, day by day by day,
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  starting today, starting right now.
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  Holy Spirit, come transform our hearts from our fickle humanity
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  to Your divine consistency so that we can shine glory back to
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  Your majesty and Your throne. And we pray all of this and the
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  saving name of Jesus, Amen.