Weekly Scripture 5-31-2026

Answer: 

This comes from 2 Kings.

__:__And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

*Have you ever considered that in the verse above you were actually seeing what was on the heart and mind of Elisha? But, it is true, and you can certainly see that Elisha let it be known his God-given desire. There is something for us to think about here and we can examine our own lives. When we think about goals that we might have in our lives, is the goal that we might have something that God can honor? Psalm 37:4 declares: “Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”. When our goal in life is to do God's will, He will open our eyes so that we can see what we should desire and make our purpose in life.

Weekly Scripture 5-24-2026

Answer: Ecclesiastes 2:17

This comes from Ecclesiastes

___:___Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

*I was talking to a co-worker sometime ago and she asked me why in the world that it seems like another person that we work with seemed so unhappy. She told me that it seemed to her that the employee just kept getting more and more unhappy as time went on, and that she understood that the employee was not a believer in Christ; but she asked me can't the person find some kind of joy in what they do or something? I smiled because I had read this verse the morning before I talked with her, so I referred her to this verse and others in that chapter and told her, “Now, if you are living just for yourself; whether you are a child of God or an unregenerate sinner...it is going to come to nothing. It will lead to bitterness in your heart.”. I pointed out to a little tree that was below us and I told her, “Those leaves are going to come off of that tree down there when the wind starts to blow strong enough in the winter, and they are already dead leaves right now. Now, you have to understand that is all that woman is holding onto right now, is just dead leaves. If she continues apart from God there will be no purpose or rest in her life; and she will continue to try to serve herself and in the end all she will have in her hands is dead leaves.”. Friend it has to be God that puts a purpose in the things you and I do as a child of God and our purpose is to glorify Him, and we can only do that if we serve Him by the Spirit of God not in vanity, vain repetitions of rituals, or any other empty means.