Ecclesiastes 1:14-15
I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
What is crooked cannot be made straight,
and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Truth: Apart from Christ there is an emptiness in the labor of our life.
Men go from job to job and occupation to occupation. In the days gone by, someone would get a job and hold that job for the remainder of his or her life. However, in today's world, many younger workers will experience 5-10 different jobs and have multiple jobs at one time. Despite the method or the approach, men are always seeking something better in regard to a life occupation and the earning of a living. They are, in reality, chasing the wind. This is Solomon's point in this passage. Everything we do is simply chasing the wind and futile at best. Apart from Christ we can't make the crooked straight and we can count what is not there. Corporate American seems to be the masters of chasing the wind and if you understand the stock market it is literally counting what is not there. It is money that is not really present that people count to make themselves feel secure. Yet, it plunges as quickly as the wind changes. They are, chasing the wind. When we have Christ in our lives we have meaning and we have purpose. Without His abiding presence we are locked into the Solomon's words: All is vanity.
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