Are you searching for meaning?

“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless.”

Are you thinking that if you had more money or greater success, you would be happy? Tennis star Boris Becker said, “I had won Wimbledon twice before, once as the youngest player. I was rich. I had all the material possessions I needed…It’s the old song of movie stars and pop stars who commit suicide. They have everything, and yet they are so unhappy. I had no inner peace.” Solomon made the same discovery. “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Solomon tried religion, education, money, public works projects, fame, creative writing, and sensual pleasure: “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor…Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 NIV). Finally, in the last chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon found what he is looking for: “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind” (Ecclesiastes 12:13 NIV). Solomon discovered that life is not built on things but on relationships. And the first and foremost relationship you must have is a relationship with God. You say, “How do I find God?” Through Christ! Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6 NKJV). Today, you can have a life-changing relationship with God by putting your trust in Jesus Christ.

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