Reading Ecclesiates

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I think Ecclesiastes is perhaps the most relatable book in the Bible. No matter if you are a Christian or not, you can find something within this book that directly applies to your life.

It is believed that King Solomon wrote this wisdom book, and with him being one of the smartest people on Earth, clearly something important is included here. I believe that the key message of the book is something important that everyone will come to realize at some point in their life. Simply put, that is; everything is meaningless without God in the picture.

King Solomon, with all of his wealth, all of his wisdom, all of the freedom laid out before him, he found it all pointless. That begs the question why? Especially in a society today, when we are driven by getting more and more possessions, travelling farther and farther, monopolizing everything we can, we have to ask why? Why do we feel and act in such a way, especially if in the pinnacle of it all, we'll only wake up and find that everything is pointless.

Some people may disagree, but I think everyone sets their lives up in a certain way. They try to dull their senses, dull the nagging feeling within themselves that there is indeed something more to life in general, by surrounding themselves with emotions, and possessions. Everyone at some point in their life enters a critical stage, a stage of realization. They realize that there has to be something else to this life. They realize that they are missing something; the classically termed "hole in the heart".

And no matter what you have bought into, whatever the world invents to try to satisfy that questioning, it won't be enough. Solomon at the point where he could not get anymore of everything, he realized that his whole life had been a waste. Ultimately, when it is all said and done, everything that the world has to offer ends up coming close, but not close enough, falling short of its supposed result. Possessions can easily be broken or lost, power stripped away, everything levelled to the ground. The only thing that will constantly remain is God, and His amazing, patient, almighty, perfect love.

Start your moment of realization now. Begin your journey for answers. Is everything meaningless in your life? Or are you actually living for something worthwhile?