The sermon text, and the prayer that started it. Solomon asked God for wisdom instead of long life or riches and got more than anyone before or after. Watch what that gift does when it is turned loose on a broken world.

Solomon’s wisdom was a gift he asked for. Does that make 1:12–18 a complaint or a testimony?

Job asks where wisdom can be found and searches the earth for it the way the Teacher did. Watch where both men end up.

List every place Job says wisdom is not found. Where do both books finally locate it?

Solomon wrote this too, and it promises wisdom will guard you. Hold it next to Ecclesiastes 1:18 without resolving the tension too fast.

Proverbs says wisdom protects. Ecclesiastes says it grieves. What is each book measuring?

Paul says all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ. Not available through him. Hidden in him.

Where are you trying to understand your way out of something Christ intends to carry you through?

The Teacher chased wisdom to its end and found sorrow. Paul says God put real wisdom somewhere no one would think to look: a cross.

Thank God for something you do not understand. Ask for the kind of wisdom that starts in the fear of the Lord rather than in an explanation.