Living Contradictions Water's Edge Church Sermons
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Enter the book of Ecclesiastes. In God’s grace, this wisdom literature humanizes our struggles with life’s seemingly pointlessness. It creates divine space for the enigmatic futilities of life by voicing frustration while also offering a layered and sometimes… contradictory response(s):
Life is a wisp of smoke… here today and gone tomorrow.
Life is unpredictable and sometimes futile.
Enjoy the little things. Laugh with friends.
Fear God. Judgment is coming.
Together, there is mystery in the meaning(s). Yet, if God were predictable, would God be God?
Our lack of fully understanding is something we must fully understand. Let’s begin by living in the complexity.
Enter the book of Ecclesiastes. In God’s grace, this wisdom literature humanizes our struggles with life’s seemingly pointlessness. It creates divine space for the enigmatic futilities of life by voicing frustration while also offering a layered and sometimes… contradictory response(s):
Life is a wisp of smoke… here today and gone tomorrow.
Life is unpredictable and sometimes futile.
Enjoy the little things. Laugh with friends.
Fear God. Judgment is coming.
Together, there is mystery in the meaning(s). Yet, if God were predictable, would God be God?
Our lack of fully understanding is something we must fully understand. Let’s begin by living in the complexity.