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June 17 - Ecclesiastes 11 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It's Monday, it's the 17th of
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  June. Yes, it is June.
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  Boy, that's not a good sign, is it?
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  No, it is due, definitely, and it's great to have your company.
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  Hope you're doing well. Hope this week ahead is looking
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  like a good one for you. Ah, this week we're going to
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  cover a lot of ground, friend. We are going to finish off the
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  book of Ecclesiastes over the next couple of days and then we
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  are going to crack open Luther's least favourite epistle.
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  Yes, we're going to be reading through James.
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  Have you been going along to Saint Clements with me over the
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  last month or so? We've been having a series all
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  about James, and this is going to be great to get to read
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  through it all together in one go.
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  And then friends, we are going to settle in and read through
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  the Gospel of John and spend, well, months reading through the
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  New Testament, First and 2nd Corinthians.
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  It's going to be great. We're going to have time with
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  Jesus, time with his disciples, time with his apostles, and oh,
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  the things God's Spirit is going to awaken in us as we read his
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  word together. How exciting.
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  Well, that's all to come. But today, today we're going to
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  read this second last chapter of Ecclesiastes, where the author
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  gets, well, a little bit sentimental and starts giving
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  advice about how best to live. After all of his contemplation
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  and asking of questions here, he starts to get a little bit
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  practical for us. So friends, gather round.
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  Let us sit at the feet of the teacher at the Coachella as we
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  read together Ecclesiastes Chapter 11.
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  Send your grain across the seas, and in time profits will flow
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  back to you. But divide your investments
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  among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie
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  ahead. When clouds are heavy, the rains
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  come down. Whether a tree falls north or
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  South, it stays where it falls. Farmers who wait for perfect
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  weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they
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  never harvest. Just as you cannot understand
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  the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing
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  in its mother's womb, so you cannot understand the activity
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  of God who does all things. Plant your seed in the morning
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  and keep busy all afternoon, for you don't know if profit will
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  come from one activity or another, or maybe both.
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  Light is sweet. How pleasant to see a new day
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  dawning When people live to be very old.
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  Let them rejoice in every day of life, but let them also remember
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  there will be many dark days, everything still to come.
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  His meaningless young people. It's wonderful to be young.
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  Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to take
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  it all in, but remember that you must give an account to God for
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  everything you do. So I refuse to worry and keep
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  your body healthy, but remember that youth with a whole life
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  before you is meaningless. Our Lord, here we see this
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  encouragement to hold our lives lightly and to revel in every
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  moment that You bless us with. That we can see the sunrise and
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  thank you for a new day. That we can reflect on a life
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  well lived and we can thank You for each one of those days and
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  celebrate all the little things along the way.
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  Ah Lord, you bless us with so many good things every day.
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  Thank you for the lives that you have given us.
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  Thank you for your Kingdom that you invite us into.
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  Thank you for your love that you lavish on us would help us to
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  find contentment in these simple things.
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  And as we go through life, all those big goals ahead of us, God
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  help us hold them lightly as we ultimately rest in you and your
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  provision and your plans for us that we don't understand.
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  And we won't know what's around the corner.
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  But we know that you do, and we know that you have our best
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  interest at heart. And so we rest in you, your love
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  and your provision, our loving Father and our beautiful
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  Saviour, in whose name we pray. All of these things, I'm in.