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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...

The unconverted person cannot help asking questions about life. Sometimes he puts his question in the form in which it is found in verse 9. ‘At the end of the day, what does a worker get out of all his toil?’ he asks. It is God himself who moves men and women to such questioning, and causes them to be in perplexity (10). The answer is that everything in life is of significance, and is in its right and appropriate place in the overall plan. It is therefore
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