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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Some Ecclesiastic View


Happiness.

Contentment.

Money.

Fame.

Good works.

Interconnected as they seem, yet patterned with view of the world.

Many people (I myself is not exempted) chase happiness. Who does want to be sad, right? Most of the time, people of this world live merely just for their happiness. Students go into schools and universities to earn a degree to have a job. Then after sometime, they work 8 hours a day plus extra hours (and extra hours) to get a big salary. Others work to impress other people, especially their superiors to be promoted to higher position with a higher salary. THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THOSE. Yet, there will be no end for the longing. People are always wanting for more. No contentment. No lasting happiness.

When you read the Book of Ecclesiastes, you’ll find there King Solomon’s descriptive word for everything—meaningless. He is a king who’s so wise and experienced everything: wealth, fame, people, everything. He even tried the bad side of life: wine, mistress and madness. Yet after all these, he said that everything was meaningless. Our fame, wealth, achievements and everything else are meaningless. Am I making a point here? Well, those things were temporary. Those things give us happiness but just for a short period of time. Our deeds? Those too won’t be remembered a hundred of years from now (maybe if you’re in the historical line of someone famous like kings, prince and princesses or really did an astonishing act in your time… that would have a chance to be remembered). But for ordinary man living on earth? I think it’s a no.

Just imagine a rope infinitely long. You cannot see it ends and you are holding the other tip. Three inches from that tip is your life here on earth, and from the 3-inch end boundary up to the infinity is the afterlife, where will you focus? Most of the people were too preoccupied with that three-inch part not thinking of the infinite part to come. Right? You see, I’m not that old to say these things. Yet, what I want to do, I cannot do, just like apostle Paul. The world unconsciously drags me away from these truth. The world load me with worries and doubts and fears instead of trust and faith and love for the Creator. The world gets my time. I do things on my way, not even thinking God who has breathed life to me.

Ponder.

Why would people are so consumed with things of the world that are fleeting when there’s a life that is eternal? Nothing is bad in having the things we want: fashion, travel, gadgets and many more. Nothing is wrong about getting rich. Nothing is wrong in eating, drinking and partying. Nothing is wrong if there’s no GOD who will judge us in the end as the wise teacher includes in Ecclesiastes 11:9

Your fame, wealth, achievements, everything will soon be gone. Mine too. If everything is meaningless, what’s the point of still living now? What’s the point of toiling around if happiness is temporary?


There is. A lasting joy exist. Yet it cannot be acquired not by your own effort works but by grace. Only GOD can fill that hole in your heart that searches for happiness. HE has designed that, that emptiness you feel even you have what you want. He has designed that for you know HIM and for HIM to fill it. No matter what you do or what you acquire, at the end of the day, it’s still GOD who made you. HE knows your purpose for HE is your Creator. And when you get to know HIM, He’ll show you the way to that true and undying happiness—by giving HIM glory through fulfilling what HE has called you to do.

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