Prayer: Father, I seek Your counsel and Your voice today. Help me to know Your voice and Your voice only. Amen.
Reading: Ecclesiastes 2 key: vs 1 “I said within myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to see what is good.” Yet behold, this too was meaningless.” TLV
Attention: According to an online article by Medical News Today claims that “Researchers say that the act of talking to yourself — self-talk or self-directed talk — is a common and normal behavior at any age. It may help people find mislaid items and understand instructions, among other benefits.” They also claim that there are three types of self-talk, “Positive, Negative, and Neutral (not particularly positive or negative).”
Solomon admits to having an internal dialogue with himself for the purpose of testing himself in all kinds of areas of life, pleasure, increasing possessions, creating, building, constructing, acquiring servants and slaves, and massing wealth (he became wealthier than all others). He found everything to be futile.
So, he pivoted to considering “wisdom, madness, and folly, and found that human wisdom was meaningless as his destination as a wise man was the same as a fool’s. What was the benefit? He makes a great admission as he concludes this chapter, “There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their labor. This too, I perceived, is from the hand of God. For who can eat and who can have joy, apart from Him? (vs. 24-25).
Are you attempting to find joy, apart from Him (God)? Are you attempting to find meaning in life apart from Him? The truth is, there is no joy, there is no peace, apart from God.
Action: I choose to live life with God as the very sovereign center piece of my life.
Yield: I choose to submit to the Lordship of Yeshua for my life.
Engage: I choose to engage with the Holy Spirit in hearing the voice of God.
Relationship: I choose to live in holy, intimate relationship with God.
Prayer: Father, I love You and submit my mind, heart, and soul to You. May I honor You in all that I do. Amen.
Memory Verse: Psalms 139:7 “Where can I go from Your Ruach? Where can I flee from Your presence?”
Music Video: Gospel—Where Could I Go But To The Lord
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”