DYING TO THE FLESH
In Chapter 2, Solomon indulges the emotions and fully explores the pleasures of the world. He says in vs.10 "I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;I refused my heart no pleasure". But in the next vs. he declares, "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."
After heaping onto himself pleasure, he found no real joy.In indulgence of the emotions and feelings there is nothingness. To explore pleasure and laughter, to amass to oneself the delights of the flesh is meaningless. There is no satisfaction found in them. True joy is only found by faith in the Son of God
wow! I love the way the Lord reminds us that all is vanity, that even after fulfilling our earthly /canal emotions, we gain nothing. Am so willing to do work that I have a reward for and not this nonsense we get into often that have no reward but cost us true happiness anyway.
ReplyDeleteLet us seek the real joy and contentment in Him. We run like hamsters on the wheel, often confusing activity with accomplishment.
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