Lots of well-meaning folks gush about how you should follow your heart, pursue your dreams, grab what you can from life, look to yourself first, and indulge in the finer things because you deserve them.

Solomon, who indulged better than a Russian oligarch, gave similar advice but with a sobering twist: Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgement.

I thought I lived in a judgement-free zone?! Solomon reminds me of an inconvenient truth—I will stand before the Lord and answer for my actions, good or ill. We all face a reckoning, whether we believe in it or not.

So, the next time you pat someone on the knee and speech-ify about grabbing life by the throat, finish the sentence. Remind them that God asks for an account. People deserve the whole truth—bumper sticker slogans help no one.

Follow your heart? Absolutely. Just remember the Lord follows it as well.

Ecclesiastes 11 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

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