It has got to get better than this.

This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

Yes, Preacher, these words are very true. I couldn’t agree with them more at the moment. Nothing on this earth will give true satisfaction. It is all meaningless in and of itself. Try to make money? It fritters away and creates unhappiness. Seek fulfillment in relationships? People will misunderstand you, use you, are mostly self-absorbed, and will turn on you when they aren’t particularly feeling happy with life (you will do the same to others by the way). Live for pleasure? Nah… it is fleeting… adrenaline wears you out, experiences flatten out to dull sameness, food only fills you to the next meal, and sex is probably the biggest deceptive and manipulative experience way overrated by the world. Solomon is right: You come into this world naked and confused and you leave the same way.

That is the perspective life gives without factoring in the deepest truth: God’s perspective and wisdom. Only by His redeeming work in Christ can worth come to anything we know. There are still all the same human let downs from wealth, relationships, pleasure, experience, and sex, but there is a better truth over all of them. You realize that it is PEOPLE who let you down, not God! And you realize, like I too often see in myself, that you let people down too. Even the ones you desire to care for the most. It is humbling.

Ecclesiastes takes a look through the broken glass of life’s messiness. And what do we see beyond it? A cross bringing redemption, hope, and a kingdom that will never disappoint us! Jesus is better… so much better!