Corona Devo 1679

Call me nostalgic (or crazy), but I slid an (over-a-decade-old) children's music CD into the car-player the other day while our whole family was together.  As the music piped through our vehicle, memories streamed through our minds.  These songs of yesterday brought back days-gone-by, (much!) smaller children, and years-ago that seem like only moments-ago.

In review, the hands of time travel quickly, and as I sang the songs and stepped back from present-day, I realized that our today is not all that different from our yesterday.  We busy ourselves with the routines, responsibilities, and attempts of each day, and (I felt) that the song-refrain I was humming pretty much summed-up life:

Let us chase the squirrel--Up the hick’ry, down the hick’ry,
Let us chase the squirrel--Up the hick’ry tree.


That's (sort of) what we're doing here day to day, isn't it?  Chasing the squirrel up the hickory and then down the hickory.

We go to the same jobs and homes day after day.  We marry and have marital and family rhythms.  We seek the Lord.  We serve the Lord.  We share the Lord.  And the patterns repeat day after day of our lives.

Let us chase the squirrel--Up the hick’ry, down the hick’ry,
Let us chase the squirrel--Up the hick’ry tree.

What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.  ~Ecclesiastes 3:15

The question is: What is our point today?  Our purpose?  Our end-goal?

God’s purpose is that people should fear him.  ~Ecclesiastes 3:14

Yes, we will mow the lawn, and change the diaper, and cook the meal, and pay the taxes, and manage the team, and tend to the needy, and celebrate the victories, and mourn the losses, and be born, and die...

Are we fearing God in the midst, and in the mundane, and with our daily lives?

That's God's purpose for us day by day.

God’s purpose is that people should fear him.  ~Ecclesiastes 3:14

So when we look-back-at-yesterday/when we wake-up-to-today/when we look-forward-to-tomorrow/when we chase-the-squirrel--Up the hick’ry, down the hick’ry... are we fearing (serving/honoring/loving) the Lord?  

So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. (13) And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.   ~Ecclesiastes 3:12-13

Fear the Lord today as we chase the squirrel up the hickory and back down, this is His Purpose for us and our lives.  

~~~

What do people really get for all their hard work? (10) I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. 

(11) Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. 

(12) So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. (13) And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.  

(14) And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it.

God’s purpose is that people should fear him. (15) What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.  ~Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

Blessings,

sarah

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com 

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