Scripture Devotion
The Teacher ran the whole experiment — wealth, work, pleasure, wisdom — and watched every return blow away.
“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”
Reflection
Today we open Ecclesiastes, the costliest research project in Scripture: a king with unlimited budget tries everything under the sun and files the same result on every line — vapor. And on the same morning, Paul hands Timothy the opposite portfolio: a soldier's single aim, an athlete's rules, a farmer's patience, a foundation that standeth sure. The Teacher tells you what the wind takes; Paul tells you what it can't. Sunday is the day to audit which one you spent the week building on.