Zero Satisfaction

A week in the windy city; Chicago! The weather! Wonderful! and a great conference too. Up before daylight, in bed about midnight I am glad to be home and back writing my blog. Let's start the week off by chasing the wind. Many years ago there lived a king who decided he would write in a journal what he had discovered about life. David, his father, left him a large estate. David had fought the battles and now his son Solomon had enjoyed peace for 40 years. Solomon ruled four decades over a nation that was free of war. Could this be the reason he could finance his pursuits to discover life.

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? The key word is "profit" We might say it like this "When it is all said and done, when you turn the light out at the end of life, when you finally close the door to your business and retire, when you walk away from the fresh grave of someone you loved, when it's curtains, the final profit is reduced to zero satisfaction.

Solomon gives us some Examples of Uselessness: Life under the Sun,

Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. There are a group of people born this day and another group of people who will die the same day. Winsome People will die, "tough people will die and gifted, talented and entertaining people will die. People who make us laugh, make us think, make us gain courage to go on will die.

Solomon
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. That's life under the sun but Jeremiah saw something much different.

Jeremiah
Lamentations 3:22
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Lamentations 3:23
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Why the difference in these two men. Solomon is looking at everything under the Sun not beyond it. His earthly pursuit is under the sun and therefore there has no meaning in this life.

The wind in verse 6; you see the wind today and tomorrow it will still be there, still swirling, still moving it a repetitive things.

The Rivers in

Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. Is that how you feel life to be Monotonous; like your life is one boring cycle? If that is the way you fell maybe your life is under the sun.

Solomon sums it up in

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. It is strange that he uses the eye and the ear. The eyes can never see enough to satisfy and the ear can never be satisfied. On tomorrow I will go deeper into the hearing ear and the Seeing Eye. How have you faced this day yourself? Are you looking at it as being under the sun or are you like Jeremiah God is faithful and His blessing are new every morning. How is your morning going?