The Word to the World
Speech navigates our lives. Wise speech builds up and is prosperous, while foolish speech breaks down and causes loss. As he continues to address the contrast between wisdom and folly, Solomon turns his attention in 10:12–20 to the evidence of folly in our speech.
Toward the end of my matric year at high school, all graduating students were required to submit a favourite quote to be immortalised alongside our teenage glamour shot in the high school yearbook. I immediately knew that my quote would be Ecclesiastes 10:1—from the King
When life situations don’t turn out as we expect or plan them to, we often attribute the outcome to “luck” or “chance.” But there is no such thing. All things work out and are worked out by the great King of everything. In this passage,
What do you most enjoy doing and how do you make the most of it? Often, we are so weighed down by sin that to enjoy any pleasure feels wrong or decadent. Or perhaps we struggle to believe there is much good in life to