June 6th, 26:Ecclesiastes 1–3, Psalm 45, Ephesians 2: Daily Bible in a Year

Welcome to the June 6th episode of the Daily Radio Bible. Join Hunter, your Bible reading coach and brother, as he guides us through Ecclesiastes chapters 1–3, Psalm 45, and Ephesians 2. In today’s episode, we wrestle with the profound questions of meaning, purpose, and hope presented in Ecclesiastes, contrasted with the message of unity, peace, and new life in Christ found in Ephesians. Hunter reflects on embracing God’s gifts, finding joy in our daily lives, and the enduring power of prayer. Stay with us for encouragement, spiritual insight, and a reminder that you are not alone—and you are loved.

TODAY'S DEVOTION:

Meaningless, meaningless, cries the preacher. All is meaningless. Try as he might, he cannot make sense of his broken life. Nothing in the end seems to be right. All seems to be wrong. He cannot find a way to reconcile life's disparities. He has eternity in his heart, and yet the present is fraught with fractures. Nothing makes sense. That’s the honest ache described in Ecclesiastes—a world where, under the sun, our best efforts seem to vanish like mist. Our wisdom, our toil, our striving—all end the same. There is frustration. There is longing for meaning. There is an ache for the eternal, yet an experience of only the temporary.

But Paul, in Ephesians, cries out something different. You lived in this world without God and without hope. But now, he says, you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ. Christ himself has brought us peace through the cross. The good news has come to us. In Christ, no longer is life meaningless and hopeless.

No, now we have life in him. When we are tempted to see the world through the lens of despair and hopelessness, we can look to the life of Jesus. We can look to his sacrifice. We can look to the love that has been poured out in order that we might be united with him in our hopelessness and despair. He has offered us his love. His love led him to a cross so he could free us from that despair and offer us life here, life now with eternal purposes and present joy. The preacher says everything is meaningless, completely meaningless. But Paul says he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.

There is someone far greater than Solomon who is able to mend the human soul and make us new. He is even now making all things new. So let us step into the eternal purposes that he has for us so that we can begin to live, abide, rest, play, and have joy and strength in Him.

That’s the prayer that I have for my own soul. That’s the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife and my daughters and my son. And that’s the prayer that I have for you. May it be so.