Saturday, March 11, 2017

Ecclesiastes 6:1 says, There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:  Solomon had just concluded that rich or poor, we are called on to put our faith in God to find happiness.  He was now again warning against seeing the blessings of God simply as being for our own satisfaction.  I personally believe we can apply this to people and to nations.  We must never assume that God wants us to grow fat and be wasteful while others starve.  Verse two says, A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.  I don't believe Solomon was saying that we should not share our blessings when he said a stranger shall eat thereof.  I believe he was saying that when we live only for riches and not for God's glory, that one day this life will be over and someone else will enjoy those riches, and the person themself will have nothing to show for this life.  Again, only those things done for God will last.  We tend to almost worship the rich, as though the are somehow more important than the poor. Now, the warning is not exclusively to those who are rich in our eyes, but to everyone.  It is an evil under the sun that we forgot to put God first, no matter our status in the eyes of the world.  Verse three says, If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.  I believe Solomon was again saying that a person with great material blessings, even children, who  doesn't have good, which is the will of God, as a guiding force, would have been better off to never have been born.  If we gain the whole world, we will one day leave it all behind.  If we spend our lives seeking and following God's will, then we never lose anything.

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