Seeking God Beyond Life’s Emptiness

Good morning 🌄

This morning’s word from Scripture…📖

Ecclesiastes 1:2.

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher,
“futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
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Hallelujah.

At yesterday’s Kasai worship service, M, a friend of Hidetoshi, came seeking genuine love❗️
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“Futility of futilities”…🤔❓️
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It means something like “the emptiest of all emptiness”…
or, you could say, “extremely empty”😰.
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A friend of mine used to work at a hotel🏨❗️
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He shared the gospel with everyone at work…
but they laughed at him and made fun of him…😥
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Then one day, when his supervisor faced a serious problem…
my friend gave him a Bible,
encouraging him to read it.
Thinking it might help solve his problem…
the supervisor read the Bible eagerly…
until he came to this passage…🧐
“That’s exactly
right❗️”
Life is futility of futilities❗️
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The man soon came to church. He was baptized and then, miraculously, found what he considered a better job—as a national government employee.
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And the words at the end of Ecclesiastes are…
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Ecclesiastes 12:13.
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“When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this:
Fear God and keep His commandments,
because this is the whole duty of man.”
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Shalom 😄