A good friend of mine moved to Minnesota a few years back. I had an opportunity to catch up with him the
other day and I asked him, “what was the biggest difference he saw between
North Jersey and Minnesota.” He said, “that’s easy, in Minnesota
people work to live, in North Jersey people
live to work”. Have you noticed that
about North Jersey, the pace, the cost, the
career path? It can be relentless,
dangerously seductive, but also when done right extremely fulfilling.
I think if any guy in the bible gets North
Jersey, it would be Solomon.
After a forty year reign as king, David, on his death bed, appointed his
son Solomon king. David commanded his
son as king to walk with God (I Kings 2:1-4). God granted Solomon one wish for
anything he desired, and Solomon chose wisdom, which so pleased God that he
gave Solomon a forty year reign as the richest, wisest, and most powerful man
in the history of the earth. Still early
in life Solomon turned his back on God, and embraced everything he could get
his hands on from women, to pleasure, to partying, religion, philosophy, even
workaholism he tried it all. Bored and burned out at the end of a crooked life
with a head full of insight and heart full of sadness, Solomon sat down to
write Ecclesiastes as repentance to God and a warning to us.
Join us over the next 5 (4.6.08 – 5.4.08) weeks together as
we study some of Solomon’s incredible insights on the balance of wisdom, work,
and the meaning of life…
