True Happiness

O. T. #1547 "True Happiness"
Oct. 18, 2019
Summary of Ecclesiastes 

Aren't we all looking for true happiness in this life?
How do we find it?
Where are we looking for it?
Is it possible to be happy in this life?
Read on for the answers, dear one. 

Almost 3,000 years ago Solomon wrote his sermon. He was the wisest man on earth because he asked God for wisdom. 
Wisdom is the ability to see life from God's perspective and then to know how the best course of action to take. (Life Application Study Bible)

Solomon hoped to spare future generations the bitterness of learning through their own experience that life is meaningless apart from God. True wisdom is found in God, and true happiness comes from pleasing Him. 



Here are some key verses we found in only 12 chapters of this book. 

...there is no new thing under the sun. (1:9)
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner
He giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that He may give to him that is good before God. (2:26)
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. (3:1)
He hath made everything beautiful in his time... (3:11a)
For he shall not much remember the days of his lif; because God answereth him in th joy of His heart.
(5:20)
For there is not a just man upon earth, that forth good, and sinneth not. (7:20)
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope...(9:4a)
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (11:1)
Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. (12:1)

Let hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. (12:13)

Are we asking God for wisdom?
Is our happiness found in Jesus?