Ecc 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Nothing can fully satisfy a person but the Lord's love and the Lord's own
self.
Christians have tried other pursuits but they have been driven out of
such fatal refuges.
Solomon, the wisest of men, was permitted to make experiments for us
all; and to do for us what we must not dare to do for ourselves.
Here is
his testimony in his own words, "So I became greater by far than anyone in
Jerusalem before me. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired. I refused my
heart no pleasure. 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!"
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the
Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!"
What! Is the whole of it meaningless? O favored monarch...is there
nothing in all your wealth?
Nothing in that wide dominion reaching from the
river even to the sea? Nothing in your glorious palaces?
Is there
nothing in all your music and dancing, and wine and luxury?
"Nothing!" he
says, "but a chasing after the wind!"
This was his
final verdict...after he had trodden the whole round of
pleasure.
To embrace our Lord Jesus, to dwell in His love, and be fully assured of
union with Him - this is all in all.
Dear reader, you need not try
other forms of pleasure in order to see whether they are better than Christ.
If you roam the whole world...you will see no sights like a sight of the
Savior's face!
If you could have all the comforts of life without the
Savior, you would be most wretched.
But if you possess Christ...though you
should rot in a dungeon, you would find it a paradise!
Though you should
live in obscurity, or die with famine...yet you would be satisfied with the
favor and goodness of the Lord!
~Charles Spurgeon~
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