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Bruce Shelley July 22

Ecclesiastes : Searching for God knows what

"Sensible wisdom is hard to find"

Ecc 11:7-10 -- meaningless == futility, fleeting, vanity
Ecc 12:1-14

"Nothing on this side of heaven can quiet the rumors of discontent in the human heart"

Ecclesiastes written under Solomon's shadow (says Philip Yancey)

"You matter" (GK Chesterton)

Ecc 12 -- Remember your creator in the days of your youth (when you are filled with wonder)

LIFE:
* looking back at the past or reaching out for the future
* what is so wrong with the present?
* the Preacher: "looking at life under the sun is foolish"
- it is a secular life (it==life under the sun)
- always reaching & looking for MORE

THE WAY WE LOOK AT LIFE "COLORS" WHAT WE SEE
* how do I look at life?
* what am I doing in life?

- it can determine what I see & the past teaches us nothing...

our condition is rooted in the heart; in the thrill of the moment we lose sight of the Giver of the thrill

Hunger the world can't satisfy: Christ came to change my life & the way I look at life (John Piper: Effects of C.S. Lewis' Narnia)

He purchased new eyes for us (stare at creation -tree, person - to see them differently)
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