Your Thoughts

  Your Thoughts

In Ecclesiastes we read,

“The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning,

 but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure.”

                                                                                        Ecclesiastes 7:4.

This seems like an odd statement. Why would someone who is wise not seek pleasure over mourning?

I would say a large portion of people in this world live by the statement, 

“Live for today. For tomorrow we die”.

Few people unless confronted by the death of a loved one, friend or their own impending death look to what happens beyond the grave.

Pleasure is after all far better to most than thinking about death.

Now I don’t say we should dwell on our death. Quiet the contrary we should look to enjoy each day we are alive.

We should however consider where we will spend eternity.

As a Christian a follower of Christ Jesus I believe His words, when speaking of Himself He said,

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son". John 3:16-18.

Do you believe this?

Please think about it.