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Poetry - Song of Solomon 7-8

We have come to the last book and chapters of the Poetry genre today and aptly ends with the joyous message of love between the loved one and his beloved. Love - is this not the greatest message in the Bible? Read on celebrate the fact that because of love, we have what we have today… Bible Passage: Song of Solomon 7-8 Love - As Strong As Death Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon...

Poetry - Song of Solomon 5-6

Bible Passage:  Song of Solomon 5-6 In Praise of Your Beloved O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners! Turn your eyes away from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats Going down from Gilead. Song 6:4-5 Whenever I read the Song of Solomon, I could not help but noticing how the Shulamite woman or the Beloved would constantly...

Poetry - Song of Solomon 3-4

Are you in love? Are you in love with love? Reading the Song of Solomon as it is cannot fail to stir up the emotions of love within a person.  The rush of mixed emotions that accompanies a person when he or she is in love is wonderfully expressed by Solomon.  Let’s see what he writes today… Bible Passage:  Song of Solomon 3-4 Love is Better Than Wine It is hard to shake off the image...

Poetry - Song of Solomon 1-2

Can you believe it?  We have come to the final book in the Poetry genre!  And soon, we would have completed reading the Bible in one year! Frankly, while I have no problems in reading the Song of Solomon, I dread writing about it cause this is one book of the Bible that I seldom read and even though I had attended the series of lessons on Song of Solomon, I am still quite ‘blur’ as to...

Poetry - Ecclesiastes 11-12

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 11-12 Why? How? I seek to know. Many “whys” and “how” continue to haunt us on earth. Many things remain not known. Life’s 100 000 “whys” - who can answer? What is the way of the wind? How did the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child? What evil would be on the earth? Which of the seeds I sow would prosper? Often I would...

Poetry - Ecclesiastes 9-10

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 9-10 Like fish in a net When a tragedy happens, are you prepared for it? People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy (Ecclesiastes 9:12). How true, isn’t it? We never know when difficult times will come. And when it suddenly comes upon us, we are taken aback and find it hard to handle...

Poetry - Ecclesiastes 7-8

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 7-8 “The good old days.” Don’t we often refer to memories in this manner? They are the precious memories that we keep in our heart. They may be memories of time spent together in fellowships, the initial period after we received the Holy Spirit, or the days when we were motivated by Christ’s love to be zealous for Him. They may be the days of our...

Poetry - Ecclesiastes 5-6

Ecclesiastes is not an easy book to write on. The preacher states what he sees and what he understands so simply and so plainly that there is really nothing more that I can comment about. Bible Passage: Ecclesiastes 5-6 Enjoy the God-given present moment In a nutshell, everything is vanity in this world and we all should really just enjoy and make the best of what God has given us at the present. Tying...

Poetry - Ecclesiastes 3-4

Although Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are both Wisdom books, you will find that they teach us about life totally different ways.  Proverbs begins with the fact that there is a living God who gives meaning to all of life (Prov 1:7).  In contrast, we see in Ecclesiastes (Eccl for short), it begins with the man under the sun who chooses to live without God (Eccl 1:16-17). Proverbs begins with God and...

Poetry - Ecclesiastes 1-2

Bible Passage:  Ecclesiastes 1-2 What am I living for? I thought, to live is to eat. So I fed myself with all kinds of delicacies and yummy treats, I go from place to place and made sure I tried all the chef’s recommendations. But one day, I fell ill and the doctor restricted my diet. And no more could I live to eat. Then I thought, to live is to enjoy, for life is short, we should lead each...