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Ecclesiastes: The Philippians of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the purpose of life? The preacher in Ecclesiastes, just like many today, is in search of life’s meaning. But as they look through their limited worldview all they find is “vanity, vanity”. Pure emptiness! They are in search for something which will have eternal value. To find it, we need to look beyond ourselves. This is what the preacher discovers; that man is powerless, yet God has a...

(cf. 5:1). As part of Scripture, Ecclesiastes bears the qualities of being God-breathed and profitable for doctrine and for guidance in daily living (2 Tim. 3:16–17). For many people ‘vanity’ comes most readily to mind whenever someone mentions the Book of Ecclesiastes. One of my former teaching colleagues, Fred Brock, stated that soap bubbles came to his mind. He used to recite, ‘Soap bubbles, soap bubbles, all is soap bubbles.’ The bubbles are delightfully beautiful, multi-colored
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