Douglas Sean O'Donnell

I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was the reward for all my toil." To quote commentator Dr.

Douglas Sean O'Donnell, "Like the surroundings of a fool who laughs while he unwittingly plays with fire, Solomon's private pub is alive with deadly frivolity.

Another song is sung, another round is served, another joke is told." And think about the significance of the preacher's statement that he denied himself nothing.

He's not merely enjoying a few good things that God has given him.

But I had to ask.

Yeah, if you're not familiar, Charles Spurgeon, who I quote nearly every Sunday, is a pastor who lived during the 1800s.

And he's generally regarded to be one of the greatest preachers in the past 200 years of the church's history.

Some people would say the entire history of the church.

The desire to live in God's kingdom, which means that we are posturing ourselves to live under his rule and according to his way and to live faithfully unto him until he returns.

So there is a conscious thought then to abandon the desire to live for our own name and for our own kingdom and to instead commit ourselves to live for God's name and for his kingdom.

which is why one pastor, he's also a theologian, Douglas O'Donnell, writes about this verse.

Out of all the petitions in the Lord's Prayer, this one is the hardest for most of us to pray.