Earthly Enjoyments

[Ecc. 9:7] Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for G-d now accepteth thy works.
[8] Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
[9] Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Enjoy what you have to eat, to drink, and to wear.
Enjoy married life and throw yourself energetically but joyfully into whatever work needs to be done that this enjoying the everyday aspects of life is what G-d wants us to do
Earthly enjoyments, however lawful in their place, Ecc. 3:1 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven, are to give way when any work to be done for G-d requires it.
Ecc. 8:17 I saw every work of G-d, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, I know, he cannot discover we ought, therefore, not only to work G-d's work but our work, Ecc. 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest, but also with the feeling that the event is wholly in G-d's hand, Ecc. 9:1 For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their deeds are in the hand of G-d. Man does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.
Hence the danger of delay in doing the work of G-d, as one knows not when his opportunity will end.
Though wisdom excels folly, yet a little folly equivalent to sin can destroy much good, both in himself as well as in others. This is stated in Ecc. 10:1; Dead flies make a perfumer's oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor. And James 2:20 For whoever keeps the whole Law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
Recognizing the limitations of wisdom does not erase the fact that wisdom is better than weapons of war and better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
The damage one sinner can do is unbelievable for sin means literally to miss the mark or to make a mistake, so one person who makes a mistake can destroy much of the good wisdom.
1. As to himself, a sinful condition is a wasteful condition. How many of the good gifts both of nature and Providence does one sinner destroy and make waste of—good sense, good parts, good learning, a good disposition, a good estate, good meat, good drink, and abundance of G-d’s good creatures, all made use of in the service of sin, and so destroyed and lost, and the end of giving them frustrated and perverted! He who destroys his own soul destroys much good.
2. As to others, what a great deal of mischief may one wicked man do in a town or country! One sinner, who makes it his business to debauch others, may defeat and frustrate the intentions of a great many good Laws and a great deal of good preaching, and draw many into his destructive ways; one sinner may be the ruin of a town, as one Achan troubled the whole camp of Israel. The wise man who delivered the city would have had his due respect and pick up where you left off for it but that some one sinner hindered it, and invidiously diminished the service. And many a good project, well laid for the public welfare, had been destroyed by some one subtle adversary to it. The wisdom of some would have healed the nation, but, through the wickedness of a few, it would not be healed. See who are a kingdom’s friends and enemies, if one saint does much good, and one sinner destroys much good.
The righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of G-d, under His special protection and guidance; all their affairs are managed by Him for their good; all their wise and righteous actions are in His hand, to be recompensed in the other world, though not in this. They seem as if they were given up into the hand of their enemies, but it is not so. Men have no power against them but what is given them from above. The events that affect them do not come to pass by chance, but all according to the will and counsel of G-d, which will turn that to be for them which seemed to be most against them.
All events which befall us are governed by His providence, and therefore although we cannot fully understand the reasons of all, yet we may be assured they are done righteously.
No man can judge by their present outward condition, whether G-d loves or hates them; for whom He loves he chastens, and permits those whom He hates to prosper in the world.
What we are to declare we should first consider; think twice before we speak once; and what we have considered we should then declare.
Choose wisely in your earthly enjoyments and only engage only in the work of G-d that He has assigned you too or you will be flapping your wings and going no where, except to exhaustion, accomplishing nothing you were called to do.
The soul's play-day is Satan's work-day; the idler the man the busier the tempter.