Depressing, right? That’s what a lot of Ecclesiastes feels like when you’re reading it… but there are great lessons to be learned here. For example, think about our life. We have about 9 months in a strange world where we do not belong permanently, and then transition here – where we have maybe 90 years in a strange world where we do not belong permanently… Then, we once again transition - to eternal life or eternal death.
The most important thing to remember is that this world – this life - is not the end! As Solomon says in the scriptures above, what’s the use of living thousands of years if we do not find the peace and contentment that only God can provide? A thousand years seems like eternity – until you try and compare it to eternity. Then suddenly, a thousand years is a small speck on the unfathomable journey of forever.
If we were born in the year 18 AD, and we died tomorrow without knowing Christ as our Savior, we truly are worse off than a stillborn child. For the stillborn child will be ushered into the arms of Christ, where the 2,000 year old man would be ushered into eternal damnation.
I don’t want to live forever in this broken world – I want to live forever at my Lord’s feet!
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