Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Week 16 - Day 3


1 Kings 10-11; Psalm 87

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“I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure.  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.”  Ecclesiastes 2:10a, 11 (Solomon’s writing)

“Meaningless!  Meaningless!  Utterly meaningless!  Everything is meaningless." Ecclesiastes 1:2.

God blessed Solomon with great wisdom; people from all over would come seeking his wisdom.  But I guess Solomon didn’t trust in God’s wisdom for the decisions he made in his own life.  He disobeyed God’s command in several areas of his life, one of which was taking so many wives, ultimately pulling him away from God and even into worshiping foreign idols. 

Solomon had everything and anything one could want, but still he felt empty…that everything under the sun was meaningless.  The greatest riches in the world could never compare to a relationship with God.  A life apart from Him is a life without purpose.

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