Meaningful! Meaningful!

Today’s blog post is contributed by David Trotta:

King Solomon was the wisest man to ever live.  The bible says there was no one wiser.

Here is a man who had great riches, denied himself nothing, and boasted about doing everything under the sun, but at the end of his life he said everything was “Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless!” (Ecclesiastes 1:2)

He tried it all, but none of it mattered, except one thing.  King Solomon finished penning that same book of Ecclesiastes with these words “Here is my final conclusion: fear God and obey his commandments, for this is the entire duty of man.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13)

Ecclesiastes should serve as a warning to all of us.  Think about how much time and energy we put into pursuing the things of this world.  Some of those pursuits can even be supposedly good things, but it can be the good things that cause us to stumble.  Eve saw that the “fruit of the tree was good,” but we know what that led to.

The world offers many attractive pursuits.  It did back in King Solomon’s time and nothing has changed.

But what also will not change is our response to those wordy pursuits at the end of our life – “meaningless, utterly meaningless.”  We can be confident of that.

So, let’s not fill our lives with empty pursuits only to look back at the end of our life with regret and missed God opportunities.  Instead, let’s put our heart and soul into pleasing God, so that at the end of our life, our declaration will be “meaningful, meaningful!”