Ecc 2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Ecc 2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Ecc 2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Ecc 2:21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecc 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecc 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Ecc 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecc 2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Ecc 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Solomon had 'it' all yet he sees he had nothing...
A friend of mine from years back was planning on divorcing.. They owned their home the kids were doing well and healthy... they both enjoyed their jobs... Over coffee she was so sad. she felt no bonding with him, so alone.. empty.. .. A statement she made that morning i still remember..
When we had nothing , reba i mean nothing , for dinner we shared a McDonald's burger we were together....we shared...
Life gave Solomon everything it had to offer.. he was empty... as my friend
Only in Him is there peace and joy...
Php_4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Our understanding would quickly think Solomon had 'it' made .. He found out better
Great insight! Before I surrendered my will to our LORD I married three very good looking, sweet ladies. I hung on for years with my first wife for three painful years trying to get her to come home but she would have no part of it. I was very, very, empty, much like Solomon but for a different reason.
Numbers two and three hung with me for better than nine years each but each reached a point that they could no longer live with me and they tossed me out and would not go for any form of counseling. Life is as Solomon says here when your happiness depends on somebody other than God.
As a young man, full of harmones, I thought Solomon was crazy because he had 700 wives and concubines and as king if he needed a new one to be happy, as many as he wanted were his. That is insane to any man with, even, the least of wisdom.
The truth is man or woman, your mate can never fulfill you and neither can hundreds of shack jobs. It will give you the necessity to buy a lot of Six Shooters so you can notch the handles to keep score but in the end of all that, all you will have in the end is a collection of pistols with ruined grips in need of replacing. Pure vanity, nothing more.
But I finally surrendered, got off stage and God brought my Deeter to me... inside and from the Church Family I joined and became one with. From that first Sunday in 1990 I have not, just been happy, I found the joy of our LORDS was mine and from that Joyu I am filled to overflowing.
Poor Solomon was not continually filled with the Holy spirit as am I. Had he been he filled he would not have been so tempted and he would never have felt empty for days, weeks, months and for years. The only way a Spirit filled person can feel that emptiness is for them to turn their back to Him and to walk away, stubbornness.
We have only ourselves to blame for our emptiness. I ministered to a gentleman was knew as Smiling Mike during the late ninties and through twenty ten.
Mike had murdered a police officer when he was seventeen. He had put a bullet between the Officer's eyes by holding the revolver to hid skin and pulling the trigger. And for this he received a life sentence because Texas was forced to observe a Death Sentence Moratorium and his case was decided right in the middle of it.
He was known as Smiling Mike because he had been removed from the Motorcycle Gang Culture and during the first twenty years he listened to the call of God and even though he was locked inside the Walls Unit for more than thirty-five years, he knew completion and freedom. The very things all of us need and they are only real in Jesus.
