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Devotional: Ecclesiastes 7:15-29

Today’s passage: Ecclesiastes 7:15-29

Helpful thoughts:

  • You can be overly righteous (pious) and pursue wisdom to a fault.
  • Wicked people may live longer under the sun than a righteous person. But, there is wickedness that leads to an early death.
  • No one is righteous but one… (The Messiah)
    • In verse 28, Solomon eludes to the one among a thousand he has found. Read Job 33:23 for another reference of the one out of a thousand.
    • Jesus is the only possible “one” that Solomon could have found. He even says so in verse 20.
  • Cursing and traps are the work of men and women. God made man upright in the beginning.  Man destructively schemes in the present.

Questions to consider:

  1. How can a person be overly righteous? What would have to be the motivation for that righteousness?  How does that contradict the message of the Gospel?
  2. Will it always hold true that the righteous have it “better” than the wicked under the sun? Why should that not discourage us?
  3. Where must all of your confidence lie concerning righteousness? How does the truth of the Gospel humble us in the best of ways?

December 30, 2018 Category: Devotions, Ecclesiastes

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