Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun."
Wow this is great!! We need to kill ourselves. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean suicide, I mean surrendering our flesh to God to be "mortified". If we bury our flesh with Christ, then our "love, hatred and envy" have died also. Our love has died, so that we won't be partial to one over another. Our hatred has died, so that now can share in Christ's love for all people. Our envy has died; we have no recognition of our selfishness because it is dead, rather in Christ we think on what we can do to meet the needs of others.
This verse is great in that it gives us an eternal perspective. Meditating on this word of God allows the Holy Spirit to take our focus off of self. Instead of serving and seeking a reward for self, He reveals to us the reward we have already, life in Christ, abundant love. Seeing eternally that "All things work together for the good of those that love Him", we don't have a logical reason to seek our own. To put it Ecclesiastically, our efforts in that arena are "vanity"; surrender your "self" to Christ today.
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