Sunday, August 2, 2026
Vapor and Wind, Part VII:
“Becoming Our Choices”
Steve Davis delivers the message “Becoming Our Choices” with music from Kathleen Sieck and the music team.
SCRIPTURE
Selected Readings from Ecclesiastes 5 & 6
Ecclesiastes 5:1–2
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.
Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools,
who do not know that they do wrong.
Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:4–5
When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it.
He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 5:19–20
Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions,
and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot
and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.
They seldom reflect on the days of their life,
because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
"Everyone comes naked from their mother's womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.
They take nothing from their toil
that they can carry in their hands."
Ecclesiastes 5:7
Much dreaming and many words are meaningless.
Therefore, Fear God