Dancing with Myself

Ecclesiastes 4:4-8 (ESV) 
⁴ Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. 
⁵ The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. 
⁶ Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. 
⁷ Again, I saw vanity under the sun: 
⁸ one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

These verses from Ecclesiastes list four main reasons that we have lousy relationships:  Envy, laziness, overwork, and dissatisfaction.  Any of these sound familiar?  They sure do to me... much more than I would care to admit.  That's what I love about the book of Ecclesiastes, it tackles the common problems that we deal with head on.

See you Sunday as we continue our search for answers.

Jerry

Thoughts for Saturday, 11/27/2010

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
(Matthew 22.37-40 ESV)