Sandcastles: What are you Building?
Friday, September 7, 2007
Sandcastles: What are you Building?
BACKGROUND
We all build something with the lives we live on earth. But without the proper perspective, everything that takes place under the sun is meaningless. This brief life can be like SAND CASTLES, having the promising external appearance, which gives a false sense of security and stability, but serving no real purpose and crumbles so easily in just a storm.
TALK ABOUT IT
1. What is your experience in building sandcastles? Discuss the emotions that flashed through your mind.
2. Read Ecclesiastes 1:16-18. Why do you think that a person as wise as Solomon would consider wisdom as “chasing after the wind”?
3. What were the “pleasure” and various “great projects” that Solomon undertook in Ecclesiastes 2 that led to frustration? Can you identify any of those in your life?
REFLECT ON IT
After reading the final two verses in Ecclesiastes (12:13, 14), what attitude shall we adopt toward daily living and God?
LIVE IT
Since God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil, what immediate adjustments need to be made in your life?
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal
