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April 25, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Thank you for joining me as we learn about the connection between Passover, First Fruits, and Shavuot (Pentecost) today. As part of understanding and observing the festivals that God has appointed for us to observe we count the Omer today and then we will have our daily Bible reading session!
Here is the link for a downloadable devotional if you would like to count the Omer for yourself. It has been put out by the Messianic Congregation Shoresh David in Florida: https://www.shoreshdavid.org/download/counting-the-omer-booklet/
Today we are reading Ecclesiastes chapters 4-7. Solomon has so much wisdom for us today! In our discussion for our daily application today we will discuss Solomon's closing statement, "God made people to be right and good, but people went looking for their own way of doing things." The world wants us to think that there are many paths and many ways of doing things, and what is right for one person is not right for another, but Jesus taught us that HE is THE Way, THE truth, and THE life. He is THE way, not *A* way. God's ways are higher than our ways. Jesus came to model the behavior God desires of us and to teach us THE way. Jesus taught us to pray with the Lord's Prayer, God's will be done (not our own!) and he modeled this behavior when HE prayed, asking for God's will to be done, not our own will to be done! Let us all be encouraged to look for ways to do things GOD'S way, not our own way today and every day.
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Hey everyone,
Introduction to Daily Bible Reading
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today is Friday. It's April 25th, 2025 and you're here with Robin at In The Family Way Coaching. We're here for our daily Bible reading. We are reading through the Bible using the Day by Day Kids Bible, which has been written by Karen Henley, which everybody knows well by now.
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I tell you what, about of all authors, I'm sure you'll know Karen Henley before the end of this year is out, right?
Counting the Omer Tradition
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We are also here for our daily counting of the Omer since we are counting the Omer down to Shavuot, Shavuot. And um we will get to that in just a moment as well.
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If you have your calendar and are keeping track of your daily commitment to read the Bible with me each day, go ahead and get that out, get that sticker ready or however you are marking off your days, because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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I am so
Gratitude for the Audience
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glad that you are here with me today, whether you are reading along in your own Bible with me, or whether you are watching your video, or whether you are listening on your podcast. I'm so glad that you are here.
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i am going to take out my counting of the Omer, and if you are interested in counting the Omer with me, go ahead and repeat after me, and then we will have counted the Omer today.
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Blessed are you,
Reflections on Ecclesiastes: Companionship & Wealth
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o Lord our God, King of the universe, who has set us apart by your commandments and has commanded us to count the Omer.
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Today is the fifth day of the second week and day twelve. I have counted the Omer.
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Thank you for counting the Omer with me. There are 50 days, if I did not say that already today. And then we will ah have reached Shavuot, which is the final day of harvest during the weeks of harvest. We are in the weeks of harvest, which is the first spring harvest on the he on the ah biblical calendar.
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Well, thank you for joining me today. We are reading in the book of Ecclesiastes, which has been written by King Solomon, and he refers to himself in these writings as the teacher.
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King Solomon was the wisest man to ever live and who ever will live. So his teachings, he is worth listening to. And what I noticed today is today's chapters read a little bit like the Proverbs did.
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We are going to be reading through Ecclesiastes chapters three. Wait a second. Maybe it's chapter.
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Today is the 25th. Yes. So, oh, here we go. It was on the, it was like, I thought we read three yesterday. Ecclesiastes chapter four and five, six and seven. So four through seven today.
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Our first section is entitled two are better than one.
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I looked again
Value of Companionship and Collaboration
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and I saw people being hard on each other. I saw that people work to get what their neighbors have. That's no good.
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It's like chasing the wind. Fools are lazy and get into trouble. They're happy to have one hand full and have peace. They think that's better than having two hands full with work. that's They think that's like chasing the wind.
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And I saw something else that isn't good. There was a person all by himself. He didn't have a son or a brother, but he worked and worked.
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And he wasn't happy with what he had. Who am I working for? He asked. Why am I keeping myself from enjoying life? That's a sad way to live.
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Two are better than one. They can get a lot more for their work. When one falls down, the other picks him up. But it's sad if there's nobody to help him up.
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Two can lie down together and stay warm. But how can one stay warm by himself? An enemy can win over one, but two can fight back.
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It's like tying three strings together. Three together is not easy to break. Be happy to be a poor but wise young person. That's better than being an old king who is a fool.
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The next section
Transience of Riches & Wisdom of Contentment
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is entitled Riches. Be careful when you go into God's worship house. Go in to listen. Don't be too quick to talk.
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Don't be in a hurry to say things to God. God is in heaven and you are on earth. When you say too many words, so you should say just a few words.
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When you say too many words, you talk like a fool. Keep your promises to God and be happy to keep your promise. Sometimes it's better not to make a promise.
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Don't make one if you aren't going to do what you said. Don't let your words make you sin. Don't say, oh, I didn't mean it. Why should you make God angry with you?
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People who love money never have enough of it. And that's not good either. You may get more things, but then more people come to you and they want to help you use those things up.
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So what good are things to the one who owns them? All that person can do is look at them. Workers may eat a lot or a little, but they sleep well. Rich people have more than enough, but they can't sleep.
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People are born with no clothes. They leave the world that way too. They don't take anything from their work with them. They can't carry anything in their hands.
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and People leave the way they came. What do they get for chasing the wind?
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Then I saw that it's good to get riches and health from God. He lets us enjoy them. He wants us to be happy with the days he gives us.
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They are a gift from God. So we hardly think about our days and that's because God keeps us glad.
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Our
Good & Bad Days: Embrace the Present
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last section is entitled Good and Bad Days. People work to have things for themselves, but they never think they have enough. Be happy with having what you see.
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and That's better than wanting what you can't see. Be happy when people think good things about you. That's better than having sweet perfume.
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A wise person knows how to cry. Fools only like to do what feels good. Be happy to listen when wise people say you're wrong.
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That's better than listening to fools.
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Paying someone to do wrong turns wise people into fools. It turns their hearts away from God. Payings, the end is better than the start.
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It's better to wait quietly than to brag. And don't get angry too fast. That's for fools. Don't say, why were the good old days better?
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It's not wise to ask questions like that.
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Being wise is a good thing. It's like getting a gift from your mother and father. It helps people. Being wise is like having a safe place to stay.
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Being wise saves the lives of the wise person.
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Be happy when days are good, but think when days are bad. God made both days and both good days and bad days. You can't find out much about what's going to happen.
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Try to be wise without being too hard on yourself. But don't do too many wrong things. Don't be a fool. Being wise gives power to the wise person.
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That person is stronger than 10 leaders in a city. There's nobody on earth who always does what's right. There's not one person who never sins.
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Don't listen to everything people say. You might hear your helper say bad things about you, but you know you've said bad things about others.
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I tried to understand. I tried to find out wise things. I tried to understand how foolish sin is. Look, the teacher says, here's what I found out.
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God made people to be right and good. But people went looking for their own ways of doing things.
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And that's the end of our reading today.
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There was so much
Solomon's Wisdom on Human Nature
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good stuff in this chapter. I had to read it a couple of times. And our daily application is going to be summed up in what Solomon says at the very end.
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God made people to be right and good. When he put us into the garden, we were innocent, not knowing good and evil. And there was no intentional hurting of each other.
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There was no being mean to each other. There was no seeking after riches and and we were happy with our work there. But people went looking for their own way of doing things.
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A very common thing to say nowadays is there are many paths What is right for you is not right for me. But Jesus tells us that the way is narrow and that the gate is narrow.
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There is one way of doing things. And he came to show us the way. He is the way. The way to God, the light and the the truth, meaning there is no other one.
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People are always trying to do things their own way, but God's way is the way that is designed to be right and good.
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Solomon finds as he is is searching in his through his wisdom that he sees many things that people are doing. They're trying to seek out after money. They're hurting each other.
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They're alone. And God wasn't said, man is not good to be' not good for man to be alone. He made us so that we would have community, that we would have others to work with.
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And sometimes we can get kind of set and say, oh, I just wanna be by myself. I just wanna do things my way. I just want to do alone. I'd want to just not have other people around me. I've heard it said too, it's common.
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I know people in my family have said, I'm not prejudiced against anybody. I hate everybody equally. And that's not the way God made us to be.
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We're not meant to hate everybody. We're meant to love. God is love. And he created all of us and he he sends us out together. And even when Jesus sent us out, he didn't send out individuals. He sent out people in groups, two by two, at least.
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And it's better that when we have things and that we work together with other people, we help each other out.
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Don't be hard on each other. God's ways are the right ways. And it's hard for us to understand all of his ways, but we know that he is wise and we've we're learning about wisdom, aren't we?
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That it's better to be wise and do things God's way than it is to be foolish and try to do things our own way. So when we're not sure what to do, I want to encourage us all to look to we look to the ways that God does things because God, Jesus is the way, the light and the truth in the world.
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Let's see, anything else here? Oh, you know what? I really loved the the saying. It says, don't say, what good were the why were the good old days better?
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Don't we all have a tendency to think that the good old days were better? You know what it reminds me of? Is when the people left Egypt, as soon as they had anything hard, they said, oh, it would have been better if we were in Egypt still, slaving away. It was so much better there.
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They were reminiscing about the good old days. We have a tendency to do what's called romanticize. And that's to think that what happened in the past somewhere else was better than what we have right now.
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God doesn't want us living in that past. He wants to bring us forward and and walk us through through our life. and And we are meant to grow. and God was growing them.
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And he is growing each one of us. So i wanted to encourage us not to get stuck in the past and think that where we are now is is not good if we get frustrated and say, oh, it was so much better when.
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No, it really probably wasn't. That's why God moved you out of there.
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Now, I think that's about all we have today. There are so many wise things in here, but the overreaching theme ah of today's lesson is to do things God's way.
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People are always looking for their own ways of doing things. Let's not look to our own ways. And you know what? Actually, one more thing is that when Jesus taught us how to pray with the Lord's Prayer, he taught us to pray that for his will to be done, not our own will.
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And so that's just another way that Jesus came to fulfill and and to give us examples of how to live, because we have a tendency like sheep to go astray. We have to return to God's ways and pray that his will be done, not our own.
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It's so
Reflection on the Lord's Prayer
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hard because we want to do things our own way, don't we? I don't know why we're so willful in wanting to do things our own way. I guess that's just the sin nature, but we have to struggle against that and try to do things God's way.
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And I'm not perfect either. I'm thinking of the things that I like to do my own way. And I'm thinking, oh, I just want to do things my way, but God's way is best.
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So I hope that you've enjoyed today's reading and you've had a, you've been given some food for thought today and to think about the ways that you do things and how we can incorporate and doing God's will and not our own will into our daily lives.
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And let's remember the Lord's prayer. Our father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name. your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. I hope that you feel that God has lit your light today. And if you do, please click that like button and consider subscribing or following so that we can help spread the word about reading God's word.
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And if you know of somebody who would be interested and could benefit from today or any other day's reading, please share it with them. That'll help to spread the word about reading God's word as well. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day and are seeking God's will in your life every day.
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And I will be here for you tomorrow. I know I'm going to be working hard to seek God's will for my life today. See you tomorrow.