Striving After Wind (Ecclesiastes 1:1-11)
Sermon Notes
Sermon Series: Ecclesiastes - Striving After Wind
Sermon Title: Striving After Wind
Passage: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Preacher: Ashley Herr
The Who (v1)
Qoheleth is part preacher, part professor, part pundit, and part pilgrim
The What (v2)
Hevel conveys a lack of breadth, feeling as though nothing ever lasts and a lack of depth, feeling as though nothing is ever enough
The Why (v3-4)
The Natural World (v5-8)
Nothing Ever Changes (v5-6)
“The horror the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart…we pick out this natural pleasantness of change and twist it into a demand for absolute novelty.” - Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood (The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, p135,136)
Nothing is Ever Enough (v7-8)
Human History (v9-11)
Nothing Ever Changes (v9-10)
Nothing Ever Lasts (v11)
Another Perspective
“I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour, every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.” - George Washington Carver
Reflection
What has left you feeling as though all of life is hevel, a striving after wind - that thing you are searching for and striving after that always seems to be just out of reach?
Look at the same thing from a different perspective, climbing to a higher vantage point, allowing the Spirit to reveal what you were unable to see from your finite, human perspective under the sun.
Read 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
