5. Finding Meaning in Circumstances
2 It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all.
– Ecclesiastes 9 

6. Finding Meaning in Circumstances
 4 But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun – Ecclesiastes 9 

7. Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.
Steve Jobs

8. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom - Psalm 111:10

9. “Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.”  ― A.W. Tozer

10. “Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.”  ― A.W. Tozer

12. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10
 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.   

13. 32 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened,
Hebrews 10
32 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened,   

14. Hebrews 10
33 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

15. Hebrews 10
 35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For,“Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” 

16. Hebrews 10
39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.