1. Remember Your Creator
Solomon’s closing words in Ecclesiastes issue a clear—and urgent—challenge: “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come.” Youth and vitality are fleeting, and when the season of strength and clarity fades, regret often follows. The metaphors of aging—trembling arms, dimmed eyes, broken vessels—aren’t meant to depress us but to remind us: eternity matters, and now is the time to reconnect with the Maker before pleasure becomes absent.

  • Are you living with an awareness of your Creator, or just your comforts?
  • How might youth or strength be a window to honor God before it fades?

    “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth…” – Ecclesiastes 12:1

2. Let the Reality of Aging Shape Your Today
Verses 2–7 vividly depict the breakdown of strength and senses—sun darkened, doors shut, birds no longer singing. These poetic images echo the sobering truth: life ends in dust returning to dust and spirit returning to God. Yet within this picture lies hope—because God sees what we forget, He calls us to a life remembered and embraced. Don’t wait until strength slips away to take God seriously.

  • Has the reality of mortality shaped how you live today?
  • What might you do differently if you lived in light of eternity every day?

    “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” – Psalm 90:12

3. Gospel Hope Beyond the Grave
As Solomon concludes, “Absolute futility… everything is futile.” Yet that isn’t the final word for those who know Christ. God made us, and God redeems us. Through Jesus—the Creator who became a vulnerable human—we are offered forgiveness, eternal life, and hope beyond dust. He calls us to live with purpose, not avoiding grief but walking in faith that judgment has been satisfied by grace through faith.

  • Is your faith and hope in Jesus, who gives meaning beyond death’s grasp?
  • With whom can you share this eternal hope today?

    “Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” – 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

For Prayer: Pray for our ministry partner, Dorcas’ Way, as they serve so many in our community with the approaching school year.