Discussion Questions

• When you are under pressure, what usually comes out of your heart: fear, frustration, control, or trust in God?
• God’s timing often feels late. Can you think of a time when you felt God delayed, but looking back you saw His perfect timing?
• Saul was more concerned with people’s opinions than with God’s. In what areas of life are you tempted to value human approval over God’s approval?

Discussion Questions • • •

• What has this study of Ecclesiastes shown you about God, yourself and the world?
• How has the wisdom of Ecclesiastes brought greater delight and joy in your life? How has it brought you discomfort or pain?
• "God will bring every deed into judgment." What emotion does this evoke in you? How should this truth shape the way we live, even in hidden or ordinary moments?
• How does the rest of the Scripture, specifically the person of Jesus Christ, continue and complete the story of Ecclesiastes?

Discussion Questions

• In what ways do we try to delay, stop, or hide our fleeting age?
• How does our culture prize youthfulness?
• How can you both rejoice in the gifts God is giving you and be thankful for the ones He has given you in the past?
• How have you seen the promise of eternal life shaping the way you live now in relation to aging?