Are You Searching For Meaning?

“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” (Ecclesiastes 1:14)

 
Are you thinking that if you had more money or greater success, you would be happy? Tennis star Boris Becker said: “I had won Wimbledon twice before, once as the youngest player. I was rich. I had all the material possessions I needed…It’s the old song of movie stars and pop stars who commit suicide. They have everything, and yet they are so unhappy. I had no inner peace.”

Solomon made the same discovery. “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Solomon tried religion, education, money, public works projects, fame, creative writing, and sensual pleasure: “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor…Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).

Finally, in the last chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon finds what he is looking for: “Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind” (Ecclesiastes 12:13). Solomon discovered that life is not built on things but on relationships. And the first and foremost relationship you must have is a relationship with God. You say, “How do I find God?” Through Christ! Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). Today, you can have a life-changing relationship with God by putting your trust in Jesus Christ.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, forgive me for all the wasted time going down dead-end roads, until I realized meaning is in my relationship with You and Your ways and directions. In Jesus’s name, Amen.

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