Daily Devotions
Ecclesiastes
"Nevermore will they have a share"
Text: Ecclesiastes 9:6
TREASURE EVERY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE
Life offers many experiences, both the good and the bad. But from each experience, important lessons may be learned. But when death comes, there is nothing more to experience. Death ends all of life’s activities.
“Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished;
Nevermore will they have a share
In anything done under the sun.”
Ecclesiastes 9:6
1. Common feelings that make up life
a) “Love”
i) For family and friends.
ii) For favourite activities (hobbies etc.).
b) “Hatred”
i) Everyone has some things that are “hated”.
ii) Negative feelings are also a part of life.
c) “Envy”
i) We may envy the qualities of others.
ii) We may also envy the successes of others.
2. Not a moral evaluation
a) This statement is not a moral evaluation of these feelings.
b) This is just an observation of what people who are alive feel.
3. “Have now perished”
a) The dead are no longer capable of feeling anything.
b) They can’t love, or hate or even feel envious of anyone.
c) To Solomon, this is such a great loss!
4. “Nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun”
a) These feelings are usually shared
i) With the family.
ii) With friends.
b) But when one is dead
i) One cannot share anything.
ii) One cannot feel anything.
c) Death puts an abrupt and complete end to all “normal” human feelings.