FRIDAY, March 27th, 2009

Hey you guys! I heard that you have the day out of school today?? That is incredible! Well, I am going to be at my new house for a good part of the day and so I figure that maybe you can come over to my house and help me work :) Good plan?

Well lets get onto the devotions, Michael, thanks for being faithful man! Thanks for helping me out so much during this CRAZY week! I will tell you all about it in Sunday School!

Alright, Devotions:

1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

This passage is incredible! It is a little hard to understand at first, but as the passage keeps going, it gets better and better. I love verse 7 - 12. I am sure you have heard of these verses before, they remind us that WE NEED A FRIEND! We need someone who can lift us up, we need someone who will hold us accountable, we need someont to talk to and we need someone to pray with... I could go on and on, this passage makes it clear that life is much better when we have a friend.

Then we see that a three string cord is not quickly broken, when we have God in the midst of our friendships then they are not quickly broken....

Have you ever met someone who has a new best friend ever couple of days, or weeks? Well, that means that someone in that relationship was not being Godly... because if they would have been Godly, then that frienship would not have been severed!

Alright Guys! Have a great day! Call me!