Ecclesiastes 1 - Day 1059

Ecclesiastes 1 - Day 1059 (link to reading)

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

Commentary (thewarehouse.blog): Written over 3000 years ago, much of the message of Ecclesiastes still resonates. Pursuing things, people, objects, power and pleasure bring nothing more than emptiness. It’s the ongoing dilemma humankind has faced since the garden. This is Solomon’s written words of emptiness found in pursuit of anything but God. A king who ruled during the Golden Age of Israel, he had been given much.

Wisdom, discernment, riches and physical pleasures were at his beck and call. Yet, he remained disillusioned by their hollowness. Although he was gifted by God with everything imaginable, he would fail to even heed his own advice. He sought after the world and forgot God. It would not be until later in his years where he would take a hard look at himself and all he had experienced where the regret and bitterness of his pursuits had brought nothing.

Application: What is the meaning of life?  What motivates you to get up in the morning?  Why do you do what you do?  

Prayer: Lord, show me Your face...