Joined to the living
This article by Thomas Miersma offers an expository meditation on Ecclesiastes 9:4, exploring Solomon's teaching about the contrast between life and death and its implications for how believers should live. The author examines the hope and daily confidence available to those joined to the living, while acknowledging death's sovereignty and the spiritual differences between the believer's and unbeliever's approach to earthly existence. Through careful biblical interpretation, Miersma shows how the doctrine of God's providence shapes Christian perspective on mortality and daily living under God's rule.
Previous article in this series: February 1, 2018, p. 202. We saw last time that one event, namely death, comes upon all, both the righteous and the wicked without distinction. This shapes the lives of the sons of men, who are fallen in sin and who shall die. The reason it shapes the lives of men lies in the finality of death and the contrast between the living and the dead. In setting forth this truth and its implications, Solomon turns, first of all, to a description of this contrast in its...
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