David Gibson is the minister of Trinity Church, Aberdeen, and the co-editor of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her. Previously he worked for UCCF. He is married to Angela and they have four children.

Only a proper perspective on death provides the true perspective on life.

Living in the light of your death will help you to live wisely, freely and generously. It will give you a big heart and open hands, and enable you to relish all the small things of life in deeply profound ways. Death can teach you the meaning of mirth.

The author encourages us to take the one thing in the future that is certain – our death – and work backwards from that point into all the details and decisions and heartaches of our lives, and to think about them from the perspective of the end. It is the destination which makes sense of the journey. If we know for sure where we are heading, then we can know for sure what we need to do before we get there.

Learn to find true joy and satisfaction in God's good gifts, and, in realizing your own smallness, see just how great God is.

Only by living in the light of your death can you live a life of true joy.

David Gibson

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Let’s pretend

2: Bursting the bubble

3: Doing time

4: Living a life less upwardly mobile

5: Looking up, listening in

6: Learning to love the limitations of life

7: From death to depth

8: Things to know when you don’t know

9: One foot in the grave

10: Getting the point

Notes

__Only a proper perspective on death provides the true perspective on life.__

Living in the light of your death will help you to live wisely, freely and generously. It will give you a big heart and open hands, and enable you to relish all the small things of life in deeply profound ways. Death can teach you the meaning of mirth.

The author encourages us to take the one thing in the future that is certain - our death - and work backwards from that point into all the details and decisions and heartaches of our lives, and to think about them from the perspective of the end. It is the destination which makes sense of the journey. If we know for sure where we are heading, then we can know for sure what we need to do before we get there.

Learn to find true joy and satisfaction in God's good gifts, and, in realizing your own smallness, see just how great God is.

__'The past two decades have witnesses quite a number of popular expositions of Ecclesiastes - ant this one is the best of them.' D.A. Carson__

__'I think the writer of Ecclesiastes would be pleased with David's work.' - Dale Ralph Davis__

__'Profound scholarship and covetable clarity of presentation.' - Alec Motyer__

__'Bold and beautiful in style, Destiny promises to jolt the mind and shake us out of our complacencies. I couldn't put it down!' - Fiona McDonald__

Only by living in the light of your death can you live a life of true joy. A powerful challenge to live for God in the real world.

Only a proper perspective on death provides the true perspective on life.Living in the light of your death will help you to live wisely, freely and generously. It will give you a big heart and open hands, and enable you to relish all the small things of life in deeply profound ways. Death can teach you the meaning of mirth.The author encourages us to take the one thing in the future that is certain - our death - and work backwards from that point into all the details and decisions and heartaches of our lives, and to think about them from the perspective of the end. It is the destination which makes sense of the journey. If we know for sure where we are heading, then we can know for sure what we need to do before we get there.Learn to find true joy and satisfaction in God's good gifts, and, in realizing your own smallness, see just how great God is.

David Gibson's expositions of Ecclesiastes are like Ecclesiastes itself: sometimes shocking, often tantalizing, always refreshing. He deftly combines serious stuff with a light touch, clear style and gospel relief. You will repeatedly run into 'think-stoppers'; he will make new grooves in your gray matter that weren't there before; and you will often admit, 'I wish I'd have thought to put it like that!' I think the writer of Ecclesiastes would be pleased with David's work.; - Dale Ralph Davis

David Gibson is the minister of Trinity Church, Aberdeen, and the author of several books. Previously he worked for UCCF. He is married to Angela and they have four children.

Contents  
1. Let's pretend   
2. Bursting the bubble   
3. Doing time   
4. Living a life less upwardly mobile   
5. Looking up, listening in   
6. Learning to love the limitations   
of life   
7. From death to depth   
8. Things to know when you don't   
know   
9. One foot in the grave   
10. Getting the point

As a culture we have yet to come to terms with death, but in Destiny David Gibbons shows how to approach such a big topic.

\["Written for anyone grapping with death","David Gibson helps you find peace and perspective","Destiny is a sensitive book for learning to find acceptance with death"\]

Destiny

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