Ecclesiastes' Conclusion Concluded in Christ

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." (Ecclesiastes 12: 13)

How do we fear God? By accepting that we have forgiveness of sins:

"But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." (Psalm 130: 4)

How have we received this forgiveness? Through Jesus Christ, His Son:

"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" (Ephesians 1: 7)

To know that all our sins have been wiped out, purged altogether, inspires a  reverential fear -- awe -- for all that God has done for us.

Yet what about keeping His commandments? God has now placed His laws in us:

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

We receive God's guidance in us through His Holy Spirit, the Promise of the Father (Acts 2: 33)which we receive because of Christ's death on the Cross:

"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

"But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." (Galatians 5: 16-18)

The life that we know live is a life of faith, for the righteous live by faith (Galatians 3: 13), and the faith that lives in us is the faith of the Son of God (Galatians 2: 20)

Therefore, "man's all" mentioned by Ecclesiastes is accomplished in us through Jesus Christ, in whom we are complete (Colossians 2: 10), in whom we have all the spiritual blessings which God wants us to have (Ephesians 1: 3), through whom we have life, and that more abundantly (John 10: 10).