Deaf Devo in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States "Success" for Thursday, 2 June 2016

Deaf Devo in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States "Success" for Thursday, 2 June 2016
"Success"
Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 2:4-11Ecclesiastes 2:4 I worked on a grand scale — I built myself palaces, planted myself vineyards, 5 and made myself gardens and parks; in them I planted all kinds of fruit trees. 6 I made myself pools from which to water the trees springing up in the forest. 7 I bought male and female slaves, and I had my home-born slaves as well. I also had growing herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, more than anyone before me in Yerushalayim. 8 I amassed silver and gold, the wealth of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, things that provide sensual delight, and a good many concubines. 9 So I grew great, surpassing all who preceded me in Yerushalayim; my wisdom, too, stayed with me. 10 I denied my eyes nothing they wanted. I withheld no pleasure from myself; for I took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward for all my work. 11 Then I looked at all that my hands had accomplished and at the work I had toiled at; and I saw that it was all meaningless and feeding on wind, and that there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
If you ask people what success means, you will get many answers. If you do a search on the Internet or read books, you will see that there are many opinions about what success means. The problem with most of these opinions is that they are not based on God's Word.
Many people think that the writer of Ecclesiastes was King Solomon. He certainly was a man who was successful. The verses from our Bible Reading today tell us that he had great wealth and many treasures. But King Solomon concluded that "it was all a waste of time! It was like trying to catch the wind. There is nothing to gain from anything we do in this life" (verse 11b).
If we want to have success on earth, we need to use wisdom from God's Word and make sure that our success will not keep us from serving God. And we need to follow Solomon's advice in Ecclesiastes 12:13b: "The most important thing a person can do is to respect God and obey his commands." -SB
"I saw that wisdom is better than foolishness in the same way that light is better than darkness." Ecclesiastes 2:13
PRAYER: Father, help me to remember that true success comes from You. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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