Ecclesiastes three at a glance

 

        Although someone may believe and accept the earthly notion that King Solomon was only a king and not a philosopher, because there were no proof of the university where he studied philosophy or psychology,   near the end of his life, Solomon looked back with an attitude of humanity and glee repentance. He took stock of his life, hoping to spare his readers the bitterness of learning through personal experience that everything apart from God is empty, hollow; and meaningless.

      He had a very honest approach to life, though he did not yield to his personal instinctive advice at his age of vitality. All of his remarks relating to the futility of life are there for a purpose: to lead us to seek fulfillment and happiness in God alone. He was not trying to destroy all hope, but to direct our hopes to the only one who can truly fulfill them and give our life a meaning. Solomon affirms the value of knowledge. With Seven Hundred wives and Three Hundred concubines, he does not recommend his temperament and choice to others.  “Trust not your heart to woman” he said.

        His sensitivity about time and season would in ploy doubt and fear into the heart of the feeble, ‘a right time for everything’ as he listed in chapter three of the Ecclesiastes, verses one to eight:

1” To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate, a time of war, and a time of peace”.

      Dear friend, none of the above listed is not summation to “The All sufficient GOD”.  The conclusion of the whole matter, Solomon said in Eccl. 12 v13 - 14:  “Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil”.