{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Redeemer Community Church","title":"What He Has Made Crooked","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2227,"description":"\r\n\r\nEcclesiastes 7:1–4 (Listen)\nThe Contrast of Wisdom and Folly\n\n7:1   A good name is better than precious ointment,    and the day of death than the day of birth.2   It is better to go to the house of mourning    than to go to the house of feasting,  for this is the end of all mankind,    and the living will lay it to heart.3   Sorrow is better than laughter,    for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.4   The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,    but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.\n(ESV)Ecclesiastes 7:10–14 (Listen)\n\n10   Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”    For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.11   Wisdom is good with an inheritance,    an advantage to those who see the sun.12   For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,    and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.13   Consider the work of God:    who can make straight what he has made crooked?\n14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.\n(ESV)Ecclesiastes 7:23–24 (Listen)\n23 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?\n(ESV)Ecclesiastes 8:14–17 (Listen)\nMan Cannot Know God’s Ways\n14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. 15 And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.\n16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Lh_b-0XDYlFzNxfeRBY14Thy_Sdm3JG2ZvlKuTe5aqk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5NTgwLzE2MTYx/ODUxOTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}