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A Life Worth Living and a Lord Worth Loving: Exposition of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon is unavailable, but you can change that!

Has life really any meaning? Our time in this world is comparatively short. The earthly stage remains, but different actors are constantly passing across it. Generations come and go, but nothing is ultimately different. This is how many people see life, and Solomon identifies with them. But is life really pointless? If not, what is its true meaning? The message of Ecclesiastes is that life is...

sees life through the eyes of a person who is still unconverted. Such a person tackles life’s problems without the light of God’s revelation. He leaves God out of the picture, and never ponders his Word. The only conclusion he can come to is that ‘All is vanity’ (1:2). Everything in this mortal life is ultimately futile. It is a waste of time. Solomon’s other viewpoint is radically different. He now looks at life through the eyes of a man to whom God has revealed himself. Such a person sees everything
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