Jun 9, 2026 · 40 min · 11 segments
What do you do when hard times come? Where do you turn when the bottom drops out of your life? A lot less is certain in life than we want to believe is. Pastor Malik Murray continues our series…
Malik MurrayHost
He presents you with bad news, and then he's like, but also life's great, enjoy it.
You know that type of compliment where somebody says, you look really good today.
Today? What you saying about yesterday? What you saying about tomorrow? It's like the entire book is this beautiful backhanded compliment.
Live a life that enjoys prosperity, recognizing that as the book said in chapter 2, everything comes from the hand of God.
It says enjoy the good moments, enjoy the good meals, enjoy the birthday parties, enjoy your successes.
It's only asking that we kind of sort of hold them in this weird tension where the blessings exist and we celebrate them, but then it says, but when hard times come.
Again, it forces us to deal with this realistic duality that you'll enjoy prosperity, but there are days that you didn't plan for, days you didn't schedule, days you weren't invited to, days where there is far more calamity than there is enjoyment and prosperity.
to promise and it's what Ecclesiastes refuses to let us forget and so what really makes us uncomfortably have to sit with the reality of uncertainty the reality that we can't guarantee anything the book says you can work hard and you can attain all this and you can go as far as you want but The writer says, I did everything and I found it to be hevel.
He presents you with bad news, and then he's like, but also life's great, enjoy it.
You know that type of compliment where somebody says, you look really good today.
Today? What you saying about yesterday? What you saying about tomorrow? It's like the entire book is this beautiful backhanded compliment.
Live a life that enjoys prosperity, recognizing that as the book said in chapter 2, everything comes from the hand of God.
It says enjoy the good moments, enjoy the good meals, enjoy the birthday parties, enjoy your successes.
It's only asking that we kind of sort of hold them in this weird tension where the blessings exist and we celebrate them, but then it says, but when hard times come.
Again, it forces us to deal with this realistic duality that you'll enjoy prosperity, but there are days that you didn't plan for, days you didn't schedule, days you weren't invited to, days where there is far more calamity than there is enjoyment and prosperity.
to promise and it's what Ecclesiastes refuses to let us forget and so what really makes us uncomfortably have to sit with the reality of uncertainty the reality that we can't guarantee anything the book says you can work hard and you can attain all this and you can go as far as you want but The writer says, I did everything and I found it to be hevel.
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