Ecclesiastes 2:4-6
"I undertook great projects: I build houses for myself and planted vineyards. I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees."
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
"I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
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."
As you examine your projects or goals, what is your starting point, your motivation? Without God as your foundation, all you are living for is meaningless.
-- perhaps that is why I'm stressed out about my job. My motivation was pretty much for the money. Where does God lie in all this? What does he want me to learn? perhaps, it is compassion for His people? hmmm.
The purpose of Ecclesiastes: to spare future generations the bitterness of learning through their own experience that life is meaningless aprt from God.
Constantly having lectures from God. It's never ending. = = """".
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