New Year's Eve -- Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 -- 2022: Be Aware -- December 31, 2021

31/12/2021 12 min
New Year's Eve -- Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 -- 2022: Be Aware -- December 31, 2021

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Send us a textThe end of the year always brings on quests to better ourselves in one way or another. Often this includes things to keep us from aging! The book of Ecclesiastes is sometimes a hard one to read... "Meaningless, meaningless! Everything is meaningless!" What is the point of getting healthy or having the big house, when we are all going to just die anyway?? But the words for tonight help remind us of our Creator, and that WE are a CREATION! We are here on purpose! God created you for a reason! God be with you as you close out 2021 and welcome 2022. Remember your Creator    in the days of your youth,before the days of trouble come    and the years approach when you will say,    “I find no pleasure in them”—2 before the sun and the light    and the moon and the stars grow dark,    and the clouds return after the rain;3 when the keepers of the house tremble,    and the strong men stoop,when the grinders cease because they are few,    and those looking through the windows grow dim;4 when the doors to the street are closed    and the sound of grinding fades;when people rise up at the sound of birds,    but all their songs grow faint;5 when people are afraid of heights    and of dangers in the streets;when the almond tree blossoms    and the grasshopper drags itself along    and desire no longer is stirred.Then people go to their eternal home    and mourners go about the streets.6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,    and the golden bowl is broken;before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,    and the wheel broken at the well,7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from,    and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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