Today, I am reading and commenting on  Ecclesiastes 1-6.

The writer tells us that everything is meaningless, but he also tells us that there is nothing better than to do what is good and be happy.  He writes that there is nothing new, that everything that happens has happened before.  One could argue that when the first man walked on the Moon, that was something new.  But that misses his point, he means that human nature does not change.  People today are neither better than they were in centuries gone by, nor are they worse.  Sometimes we look around and think that people today behave much worse than they did in the past.  But, if we study history, we will quickly see that there have been times in the past when people were every bit as depraved as they are today.  The same is true when we think that people are better today than in the past.  The writer tells us that nothing we do today really changes anything, which makes all of our effort meaningless.  Everything we do is only temporary and we will all die, sooner or later.  Yet, he sees that a part of us focuses on eternity which leads him to conclude that there is nothing better in life than to be happy doing what is good.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.