1. Remember your creator
Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8

2. Remember your creator
Before you forget Him

3. Before you forget him Life on earth is to be enjoyed
7 Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. 8 However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless. 9 You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Life on earth is to be enjoyed
Life on earth also has sufferings.
Example: Youth
To be enjoyed while you can experience life.
But with moderation as God will hold you accountable.

4. Before you forget him
10 So then, banish anxiety from your heart     and cast off the troubles of your body,     for youth and vigor are meaningless.
12:1 Remember your Creator     in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come     and the years approach when you will say,     “I find no pleasure in them”—
Result: Live daringly, live accountably. Remembering God before you forget him in the mist of pain or pleasure.

6. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10

7. Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

10. Before you fade away Remember your creator
Before you forget Him – Live in Awe of Him
Before you fade away

11. Before you fade away
2 before the sun and the light     and the moon and the stars grow dark,     and the clouds return after the rain; 3 when the keepers of the house tremble,     and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few,     and those looking through the windows grow dim; 4 when the doors to the street are closed     and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds,     but all their songs grow faint; 5 when people are afraid of heights     and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms     and the grasshopper drags itself along     and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home     and mourners go about the streets.

12. Before you fade away
2 before the sun and the light     and the moon and the stars grow dark,     and the clouds return after the rain;

13. Before you fade away
3 when the keepers of the house tremble,     and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few,     and those looking through the windows grow dim; 4 when the doors to the street are closed     and the sound of grinding fades;

14. Before you fade away
when people rise up at the sound of birds,     but all their songs grow faint; 5 when people are afraid of heights     and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms     and the grasshopper drags itself along     and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home     and mourners go about the streets.

15. Before you fade away
when people rise up at the sound of birds,     but all their songs grow faint; 5 when people are afraid of heights     and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms     and the grasshopper drags itself along     and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home     and mourners go about the streets.

19. Before you face Him Remember your creator
Before you forget Him – Live in Awe of Him
Before you fade away – Live in His image
Before you face Him

20. Before you face him “Life lasting” will perish
6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,     and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,     and the wheel broken at the well, 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from,     and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
“Life lasting” will perish
Replaceable no longer replaced
What we thought we owned will be returned to God

22. 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-20

24. Remember your creator Before you forget Him – Live in Awe of Him
Before you fade away – Live in His image
Before you face Him – Live without waste

25. The final cry
8 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.     “Everything is meaningless!”

26. The final cry
8 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.     “Everything is meaningless!”

27. Live like you were dying

30. Live like you were dying