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So go ahead, eat, drink, and be merry, for it makes no difference to God! Wear fine clothes—with a dash of cologne! Live happily with the woman you.
Nov 21, 2023 · To “eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die”—to live life for pleasure’s sake alone—goes against the biblical mindset to “count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:11).
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Right at the start of Ecclesiastes 9:7is a little word, “Go.” We’re not just told “Eat your food with joy,” but “Go”! Seize the day. In other words, set about it as if you mean it and know what you’re about. Eat and drink with gladness and joy. The second half of verse 7 shows us that these things are a gift: “for God has already approved what you ...
My mother still loves giving me Christmas presents. Every year it’s the same. She asks me what I would like, and I say, “Nothing thanks, Mum. I’m forty-plus; I don’t need anything to open,” and she gives me something to unwrap anyway. Even now, she just loves seeing her boys receive a gift from her. Any parent can understand this. Anyone who loves ...
Enjoy life with your spouse, whom you love. Cherish and protect the person God has given you. If you’re married, don’t downplay this. We are not told: live with your wife or put up with your wife but, rather, enjoy life with your wife. If you are too busy to enjoy the life you have together, then you are too busy. End of story. If you do not enjoy ...
Dying people who truly know they are dying are among all people the most alive. They are not here to live forever. They are here to live for now, for today—and most of all, they are here to live with and for others. This is just the way a wise, old man speaks to a younger man. “Ah,” he says, “if I knew then what I know now, I’d do things differentl...
It can, of course, be confusing when we try to work out how to put all of this intensely physical stuff together with being a Christian. What does it mean to love life and the world if it’s passing away, and if I’m meant to enjoy God and live for Christ first and foremost? Let me say that the two things go hand in hand absolutely beautifully, and f...
But when we worship God and trust him and love him and walk with him, what we find is that he is not an old man in the sky who makes us bow down before him in a cold, white room, while he sits on a throne waiting to zap us when we get it wrong. No, what we discover is that God is like the host who welcomes us into his kingdom and to the most lavish...
Jeremiah 30:19 . And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jun 22, 2004 · The “King James” version of this is: “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” When it comes to the matter of eating, drinking, and being merry, it is generally held that the Bible in general, and Jesus, in particular, condemned the thought.
(32) It was meet that we should make merry. —The Greek expresses moral necessity rather than mere fitness. “We must needs rejoice;” it could not be otherwise.
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Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
