Ecclesiastes 9:1 says, For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.  Solomon declared that those that believe God, the righteous and the wise, and all their works are in the hands of God.  The only wisdom we can claim is the knowledge that God is ultimately in control.  People may attempt to prove that they know just as much as God, but they only deceive themselves.  We cannot know the love of God based on the material world.  We can only know it through faith.  People may attempt to judge Christians by their wealth or even health, but people are only Christians by a spiritual relationship with God, and it is not dependent on materialism.  If we begin to proclaim a gospel based on material possessions, then we are not proclaiming what God's word states.  At least this is my understanding, and I believe is what Solomon was stating also.  Verse two states, All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.  I believe Solomon was saying that it doesn't matter what comes to us in live does not matter, but how we live our lives in relationship to God is what makes the difference.  Those who declare that there is no God may prosper, as may those that believe in God, leading those that do not believe to conclude that it is foolish to follow God.  Verse three says, This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.  Solomon proclaimed that the heart of men was full of evil.  This has not changed.   Without the direction of God, we all live under the evil and madness of the heart.  What can be more of a sign of evil and madness than to devote everything to the acquisition and hoarding of the things of this world when death awaits us, and those material things are forever lost.  We, as followers of Christ, must live in accordance with His leadership.