Beauty fades as you age like the flowers in a field It is in My wisdom for selfish pride to yield Eyes of understanding, open wide, then to see Most of your years you have lived in vanity
Like the grass in the field your time on earth is short You were made for a purpose and will give a full report Every work will be judged whether good or whether bad The years I ordain you cannot subtract or add
What will you say when your time on earth is done? Have you lived for Me in your time under the sun? The one who pleases Me is the one who will endure Those who seek wisdom will escape sin’s allure
To the one who loves Me untold treasures you’ll find When I call you home, earthly wealth is left behind Reflect Me to be holy and disciplined Life can be meaningless if you chase after the wind
Debbie Furey February 6, 2024
Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 NKJV – “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you into judgment. 10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.”
Isaiah 40:6-8 – “A voice says, ‘Cry out.’ And I said, ‘What shall I cry?’ ‘All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. 7 The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.’”
Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 – “When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.”
Ecclesiastes 2:26 – “To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”
