Ecclesiastes

God is not a God to be trifled with. God is not a God to take for granted. Even if our observation of the world leaves us perplexed and confused, God has revealed himself to us in his word. He's revealed his plan for the world to us. He's told us what he's like. He's told us what he desires of us. He's given us rules that help us to live in this world. He's shown us how to make sense of this world. And most of all he's sent his Son to live as one of us, to take our sins upon himself and to make it possible for us to be brought back to himself.

Perhaps one of the great gifts of having Ecclesiastes in the Bible is that "the Quester" is prepared to ask hard questions and confronts life's puzzles head on. Ecclesiastes was wise enough to see that he was amusing himself to death. Many people in our postmodern world are in need of the same wisdom so they can escape from virtual reality. Others need to be released from slavery to money and find enjoyment from the hand of God. For these reasons, and many others, I believe Ecclesiastes' observations on work and wealth are certainly wisdom for postmoderns.