Where is your focus?

Step3 of “What’s the Bottom Line?” is based on Ecclesiastes 12:1-5. The Teacher once again focuses on influencing young people. What about the older folks? What advice does the Teacher give to someone past middle age, for example?

Because of the Teacher’s call to “remember,” these verses recall to my mind Peter’s last words in 2 Peter 1:15-21, where he also admonishes us to “remember” and “reminds” to “pay attention.”

You might try using an hourglass to illustrate the Teacher’s as well as Peter’s call to remember and pay attention to God. When the hourglass is full (youth) we freely take our eye off of it, but as the sand nears depletion (old age), we stare at the hourglass and ready ourselves as we watch the last grains of sand fall. We want to be prepared to meet God, our Creator, with full focus when the end comes.