“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?” Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
December 11, 2024
Where can we find the meaning of life? Does life have any purpose? If it does where is the answer to be found? There is a book in the Bible which explores the answers men give and leads us to the answer God gives. This book has been called “The Bible’s Black Sheep.” Ecclesiastes is the most misunderstood book in the entire Bible. Part of the problem is the failure to understand it is a self-conscious search for the key to the meaning of life. We can step in the right direction in gaining benefit from Ecclesiastes by observing that the natural world (thinking without God) does not hold the key to the meaning of life (Ecclesiastes. 1:3-11). The natural man is limited by time. Human effort and human genius cannot unlock the meaning to life. The inability to grasp this leads down a thousand dead-end streets. Additionally, life is fleeting. If you haven’t noticed, our pilgrimage on this planet is a brief one. A tombstone epitaph sums it up, “I knew it would happen but not so soon.” Are you thinking and living in such a way to see what God has revealed in order to draw the right conclusions about how divine wisdom has been written on a Cross?
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“O Lord of time and space, thank you that you have told me what I need to know about the meaning of life. Give me wisdom to help those who have fallen into the trap of chasing the wind.”