20/11/2012
A Day Of Reckoning
TEXT: ECCLESIASTES 11:7-10
Key verse: “Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity” (Ecclesiastes 11:10).
Charles Swindoll, once said, “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than facts, education, money, circumstances, failures, success, what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gifted ability, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home… The remarkable thing is that we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day…. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I respond to it. And so it is for you…. We are in charge of our attitudes”.
Swindoll’s assertion is as significant as it is educative. In our text, the preacher warns all and sundry to beware of the kind of life they lead. Being an experienced man who had amassed wealth, knowledge, power and women, he had come to realize that all of them are vanity because they will all fade into nothingness in the inevitable realm of eternity.
A lot of people still do not appreciate what Solomon realized over three thousand years ago. They still rush for the things of this world in flagrant disregard for God’s standards. Their actions are dictated often by worldly expediencies. The preacher enjoins the youth to eschew the habit of walking by sight and conforming to the dictates of the world because God will subject all their actions to scrutiny and eventual judgment. He further warns that youthful exuberance is evil and should be put away because childhood and youth are vanity.
The text applies to everyone though, for everyone shall be held accountable for his or her attitude. The truth is that people’s attitude to issues of life will determine what they get. It is disastrous to be in bo***ge to an evil attitude. A break from it will help greatly; Jesus will set you free.
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