by Larry McNerney

Created on: July 13, 2010

Good day, and welcome to the revival meeting,   We meet in the tent, above the stream.  In the morning we will awaken to the sound of water and the warm sunshine.  Cooking shall be a shared experience, and the men will do the cooking as there are no woman's jobs in our camp.  We go to bed in our separate wooden foundations with tent tops, separated by men, and women, and in groups of four per tent.  The food is plentiful but home spun, and suited to a hearty morning, and a light dinner.  The birds and the scurrying animals are the alarms that wake us, and we pop up from our slumbers ready and raring to go.

   Let us turn to page 107 in our hymnals and sing long, loud and proud.  "and David assigned musicians and singers and they played for the Lord.  And David danced, in exuberance and it was pleasing unto God".  So, let us turn and let us sing a joyful noise and we will make each other, and the Lord, merry in our singing.  Sound as if you mean the words, and you will mean them.  A great man once said "fake it unto you make it".  Positive thinking of how best to serve mankind and the Lord, that is the best use to put our minds to.

   Ecclesiastes, written by Solomon, and subtitled the Preacher, is a very interesting book.  We shall read it together, and discuss it.  Then you will read it privately and ask God to give you the clues that are needed to gain knowledge.  Solomon wrote the Proverbs, and the words of the Preacher are very similar.  Many of the chapters talk about "life under the Sun.  All is vanity, and vanity of vanities.  Thus says the Preacher".  A minister told the congregation that the word vanity meant, in Solomon's time, nothingness.  Another preacher, this one on television, a black man, said that when you read the words of the Preacher and you see "under the sun" means without God's influence.  He was saying that there is mankind, there is the sun above us, and there is God, above, or beyond the sun.

  So the words mean that "without God all the life of all mankind means nothing".  We are nothing, born of the dust of the earth and to dust do we return.  With God we are born of the Spirit, and upon death we enter His realm.  Then at the last day all that are born of the Spirit shall arise to life eternal.  All of those whose lives have been lived without God shall arise to eternal death.   It is perhaps best to live for God, and with God, and to sing that song of praise to His Holy Name.    So let us get on with the next hymn, and sing it loud and proud.  Let us make a joyful noise unto the Lord.  Let us remember that this is the day that the Lord has made, and let us rejoice and be glad in it.  

 It is a good day to live our lives in the land of the Lord, above the grass, until we are buried in His Name, and await our new life.  

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