Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

And what does God require of us? 

God requires us to be fair to all people not just a privileged few, forgive others their trespasses easily  because we have been forgiven a lot and be humble, grateful, knowing that all things, all gifts, come from Him.

Salvation has nothing to do with our goodness but everything to do with His. Relish in the new commandment that Jesus gave us to show God and others how much we love love Him by letting our light so shine that He is glorified by the gifts that He has provided us.…because we show that love and mercy to others God’s mercy will follow us all the days of our life.

There is too much evidence of robust cheerfulness throughout this book. “So I commended enjoyment” is a recurrent theme that pervades the book; in fact, the Hebrew words for “gladness” and “being glad” appear seventeen times in Ecclesiastes. The underlying mood of the book is joy: finding pleasure in life despite the troubles that often plague it. Those who fear and worship God should experience this joy; they should rejoice in the gifts God has given them.

To fear God is to respond to Him in awe, reverence, and wonder, to serve Him in purity of action, and to shun evil and any worship of anything else in His universe.

 Jesus summed them up as to “love the Lord your God” and “your neighbor as yourself”

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:

Fear God and keep His commandments,

For this is man’s all.

¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment,

Including every secret thing,

Whether good or evil.

¹² “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 

Deuteronomy 10:12

⁸He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? 

Micah 6:8

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 

2 Corinthians 5:10

³¹ because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” 

Acts 17:31