Just in time for Solomon day at VBS, here is a poem of rhyme:

‘Meaningless’ Was Solomon’s Favorite Line

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Solomon’s wisdom can sometimes be read as his life’s whine.

His days were filled with riches too, but he did not live feeling completely fine.

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Solomon learned the hard way,  time after time.

‘Meaningless, it’s all meaningless’ was his favorite line.

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Writing long soliloquies, like Ecclesiastes chapter 7, verse 9 to 29,

Are truly warnings for us, given from a place DIVINE.

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Wise Solomon may have had wisdom, wealth, and excessive time,

But his life saw that it was God who made it all awful or fine.

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‘Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes‘ – that’s a great line.

We must heed these warnings of how to spend our time.

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Solomon continues speaking on and on, well beyond chapter nine. 

I don’t need to retype and rehash it all, no one has that time.

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But if anything, remember this rhyme:

God’s Abilities are beyond yours and mine.

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Solomon concluded: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. 

Solomon reminds us this: Live life best by enjoying the time. 

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Life in God’s Grace? Divine!

Solomon, thanks for sharing your reasoning time.

Amen

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Excerpts of Ecclesiastes 7:

*Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

*Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.

*Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun. Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.

*Consider what God has done:

Who can straighten what he has made crooked? When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness. Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise –  why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool -why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.

*Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city. Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.

*Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you – for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

*All this I tested by wisdom and I said, “I am determined to be wise” – but this was beyond me. Whatever exists is far off and most profound – who can discover it? So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly. I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

*“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things – while I was still searching but not finding – I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all. This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

Keep readingat https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%207-12&version=NIV;KJV