In wondering about life, the person asks, “What benefit is there for the worker from that in which he labors? “(Ecclesiastes 3:9). It’s a deep question and perhaps one that touches your heart from time to time.
Why do we stop to think about what life means? The answer lies in the fact that we are spiritual beings, made in the image of God.
God says everything has its right time and place.
“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end,” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
He gives us a sense of what lasts forever. Here, in our everyday world, we think of something beyond. We are tied to what we can see, but our souls long for something more.
So, even in the midst of our ordinary lives, we ask the big questions. We look past our routines, searching for purpose in life’s story. Eternity is in our hearts.
But as we try to understand, we find God’s ways often elude us. Solomon tells us to accept this mystery. Be happy with the good things we have, do good, and be grateful for all the good things God gives us.
“I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; moreover, that every person who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor — this is the gift of God,” (Ecclesiastes 3:12–13).
Once you recognize that there is a God and acknowledge that everything is in God’s hand, then you will find meaning. There is real significance to what unfolds in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
This leaves us with only two choices in life. Does God rule over your thinking, and therefore, there is meaning, or do you rule over your own thinking, which makes your life frustrating and meaningless?
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