Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing
it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:7 (KJV)
I remember clearly when I stumbled across my first
“life verse.” A freshman at a small midwestern Bible college, on that day I was
feeling a little homesick and lonely.
Back then, Campus Crusade magazine often had a page
with no text, no ads. Only a picture and a Scripture.
That lonely day, I flipped through the magazine and found
one of these posters. This one was of a yellow lily on a green background and The
Living Bible translation of Ecclesiastes 11:7.
I can’t find The Living Bible online, but the verse
was similar to this: Be happy.
“Really!” I thought skeptically. “The Bible has a verse in
it that says ‘be happy’?”
So I looked up the verse in the black KJV Bible my church
had given me as a high school graduation present. And I read this lovely line.
Truly the light is
sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
I was immediately smitten, falling in love with its poetry,
its sunshine. Its secret.
What secret?
Your eyes move up the page, and you read the verse again,
perhaps knowing without knowing you know.
A pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
A pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Son!
1 comment:
What a sweet verse! I couldn't find Be happy in any versions of the Bible for Ecc. 11:7, but 11:9 says, "Be happy, young man, 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 to judgment." (Ecclesiastes 11:9)
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