How can I so live that I may say at the end of my life that God has given me wisdom and knowledge and joy? How can I be “good” in God’s sight, and thus find these blessings? The answer is, that all these things come from the hand of God. They come from His great grace and goodness, and not from our own efforts to establish them. We may be very hard working and yet not receive these blessings. The object before us, in your receiving this truth, is that you would not only be hard working, but that you would also to be “good” in God’s sight. Solomon is saying that each of us must come to see what the good gifts are which come from God’s hand and then pursue them. In other words, you must be satisfied with these good gifts that He gives, if you would truly be a good person in His sight. So I want to set before you, from our text, 3 good gifts of God; gifts which will make you a truly good person in His sight, if you will improve upon them.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
