APART FROM HIM
Today's reading: Ecclesiastes 1-2
"For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him?" Ecclesiastes 2:25 NLT
Solomon tried...
In all his wisdom, with the vast riches he had, using the contacts he undoubtedly had as the richest king to ever live...
He tried to find something, anything really, that was separate from the Lord.
Something that wasn't given by the Lord.
Something that wasn't created by the Lord.
Something that wasn't bestowed upon us by the Lord.
He looked high and low. He looked near and far. He looked inside and out.
He tried riches. He looked to women, many women. He gave wine a try. He attempted to find it in education. He invested in the arts and culture. He took at stab at probably any and every pleasure he could find.
Nothing, Solomon came to find out, could be enjoyed apart from the Lord.
The same is true today.
If we are able to do anything, enjoy anything, participate in anything, gain happiness from anything--it's only because God has given us the abilities to do so.
We can exhaust our resources, waste our time, bring about a whole lot of heartache and wear ourselves out trying to find pleasure in things, only to find that all along our greatest, deepest, richest and finest pleasure will be found in the Lord Himself.
