Make Your Days Count | Ecclesiastes 9

Main message: Reflecting on death, as Ecclesiastes teaches, clarifies what truly matters and should shift us to prioritize relationships and the way we live each day.

Key points:

• The speaker is working through Ecclesiastes 9 and highlights verses saying memories and passions eventually fade.
• Frequent encounters with death (funerals, cemeteries) prompt the question: what do I want people to say at my funeral?
• Living with an awareness of mortality encourages doing meaningful, relational things now rather than postponing them.
• Practical applications: make memories, keep grudges short, call, forgive, hug, and reorder priorities away from status or material concerns.
• Challenge: consider your own death not to become morbid but to let it inform how you use the time God has given you today.

Scriptures mentioned: Ecclesiastes 9:5-6