BONUS: ECCLESIASTES OVERVIEW
Oct 14, 2023•11 min
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Episode description
Emma Dotter is joined today by Christ Sherrod, Watermark’s Marriage & Family Director. The book is really saying that all of creation is good, but it is never intended to satisfy us. It’s not that life has no point, but that these things are “hevel.” The word “hevel” means “mere breath”. Christ said that the book has made him a joyful realist! Accept that life is fleeting, enjoy this life, but do not forget that this life is “hevel.”
Book, Living life Backwards
Psalm 39: 5, “Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!”
Proverbs 31:30 “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain…”
Ecclesiastes 3:8, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity into man’s heart…”
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