Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
by: Dale E. Rood.
There’s an old Larry Norman song that says, “Nothing really changes, Everything remains the same. We are what we are till the day that we die.” (©1970 Beechwood Music Corp. BMI). The phraseology repeats itself several times, but at the end of the song an exception clause is inserted: “…unless we love the Lord.” That exception makes all the difference in the world. The book of Ecclesiastes examines what life would be without the Lord. When you read it, look for the rays of hope in the midst of the pessimism. The author eventually draws the conclusion that God makes the difference between vanity and purposefulness.