Ryan&Amber2013
Puritan Board Senior
What is the practical takeaway for the Christian in regards to these verses, and how they contrast the sinner from the godly? What does that look like for my life? This passage is very interesting to me, especially "to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God", but I don't know if I'm putting it in context properly. Thanks!
"There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind."
"There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind."