Ecclesiastes 6:12 (NKJV)

12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

Nothing you suffer is beyond healing. Nothing you undergo is beyond God’s intervention and care. Nothing is happening to you by chance. Nothing is an accident, as those without hope in Christ would have you believe.  Your whole life is in God’s hands; He cares for you. God permits everything that happens to you and God allows all things out of his love for you, for your salvation.

18 Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage. 19 As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. 20 For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.

⁶ Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands? ⁷ For in the multitude of dreams and many words there is also vanity. But fear God.

See that you do not despise one of these little ones. Part of the cosmos' beautiful ordering includes the Archangels, angels, and heavenly hosts. Despite the battles we fight, the lies of Satan and his accusations, and every chaotic evil of this fallen world, we are cared for. Our Lord Jesus loves us until the end. He will always be with us, giving us His own flesh to restore us and keep us in Him. Not only that, but He also sends His holy angel to watch over us, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. There is no need for fear despite the chaos and disorder. You, children of God, are cared for by the holy angels who remind you and keep you in the truth forever.

¹³Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. ¹⁴For he comes out of prison to be king, Although he was born poor in his kingdom. ¹⁵I saw all the living who walk under the sun; They were with the second youth who stands in his place. ¹⁶There was no end of all the people over whom he was made king; Yet those who come afterward will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

All laws given by God are for the sake of love. And God loves you so much that He gives you His Word to read, mark, and inwardly digest not just once a week but daily and richly. This love lived in humility is not an abstract idea but is taught and demonstrated by God’s people, preachers, and teachers in the Holy Word.

Mark 9:24–25 (NKJV)

24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!”

Therefore, the promise for everyone is this: On the last day, the Lord Jesus will call to you. With the same creative voice that made the heavens, the earth, and everything, Jesus will call you from your grave. “Young man or woman, I say to you, arise!” This promise is already yours. Where Jesus is forgiving, there is Jesus giving life and salvation already. Dearly beloved, God sends you a preacher today, interrupting the crying and sorrow, the pain and the loss, and the memories of times nearly forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 4:4–12 (NKJV): 4 Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. 5 The fool folds his hands And consumes his own flesh. 6 Better a handful with quietness Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.

³⁵ Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly. ³⁶ Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He commanded them, the more widely they proclaimed it. ³⁷ And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.

The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), Mk 7:35–8:1.

[Jesus] promises that where your sins are being forgiven in His name, there He is giving you all the things you’re worried about life and salvation. If you don’t need to be anxious about death and resurrection, why are you worried about food, drink, and clothing? You won’t be now that He has repented you and given you to fear, love, and trust in Him alone again.

When the ten show themselves to the priests, they trust Christ has sent them there so they may be found cleansed of their leprosy. Yet, when they are cleansed, nine of them are more attentive to themselves than to the One who gave back their life by freeing them from the death of leprosy. True thanksgiving always involves faith in the Giver. The Samaritan returns to confess that Christ is the Giver of life. His faith is not directed to his action of returning to the priests, but to Christ, who healed him. Christ's declaration that the Samaritan's faith has saved him tells us that his healing from leprosy only foreshadows the great gift of the resurrection when we will be freed from death itself. In fact, by not going to the Levitical priests, the Samaritan confesses that Jesus is the only Priest who accomplishes salvation.

Ecclesiastes 3:12–13 (NKJV)

12 I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, 13 and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:24–25 (NKJV)

24 Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

The way to Jerusalem or the way to Jericho. The way of life and the way of death. The way to heaven or the way to hell. The way to God or the way to the demons and the tombs. The way to forgiveness or the way into sin. Which way, Oh Christian?