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Weekly Bible Verse
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure…Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 (NIV)
Ecclesiastes is a really interesting book to read when you want to reset your perspective on things. You can kinda view it as a big experiment, actually. The author (most believe it was Solomon) set out to experience everything and decide what the good things in life really were. And the experiment worked out fairly well for him since he had virtually unlimited resources.
So, he did it all. He indulged in all sorts of pleasures and endeavours (women, food, drink, buildings, etc). As it says in the this week’s verse – he denied himself nothing and refused no pleasure. And what did he determine at the end of his grand experiment? Well, basically that everything he tried was meaningless.
Only by being obedient to God and working to glorify God does the author find any meaning to life. In this day and age we are still searching for meaning to life and happiness and pleasure and legacy and all that. Now most of us don’t have the resources Solomon did so we can’t really do the experiment as well as we would like to. But I would guess that even if we could, we’d probably come to the same conclusion as he did.
Earthly pleasures and riches are fleeting and ultimately meaningless, don’t mess up your eternity fooling around in this brief time period we have here on earth.
God bless and have a great week…
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its a great one . i really appreciate it. keep sharing. its wonderful.
I love this verse, so true. “do not conform to the patterns of this world but instead be transformed by the renewing of you minds” ~ Romans..?
Thanks again for the blog!