Monday Morning Perspective

The question of the day from this message is...

What will it take to make me happy?

If we are asked to fill in the blank of this sentence...I will be happy when______, what would we put in that blank? 

We looked at the things many of us have tried to no avail to find fulfillment: parties, projects, power, position. The problem with these is these are all temporal things and we are eternal beings. 

Interesting how Eddie pointed out in verse 9 the phrase "my wisdom stayed with me". How often do we think people have "lost their mind" when they make certain choices yet that's not true for Solomon. 

So what's the point? The point is found in Eccl 3:11. We try to satisfy our eternal heart with temporal things and it will never work. John 4 tells the story of the woman at the well where Jesus says the temporal water we drink will leave us eventually thirsty again. But He is living water. A relationship with Jesus leads to eternal satisfaction. 

We can have a good life without Jesus but we won't have a great life without Him. 

And to the one I rarely give shout outs to...

This guy amazes me! He's a preaching machine!! And no it doesn't come easy. It doesn't come easy for anyone. No matter your years in ministry or whatever, it's never easy. But he loves what he does and he has a heart of gratitude that God allows him to do it. And he's always had a "whatever it takes" mentality. Sometimes you have to dig deeper than other times, but it's worth the dig. With baseball season, many Saturday nights we've come in at the midnight hour and 

Sunday morning starts early for him and now with night church it makes the day longer. I'm just a proud wife! He never cheats those God has placed under his care. And I've seen that for over 30 years now.