“Everything Is Meaningless” | Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 1:1–2 (ESV) 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:3 (ESV) 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:4–7 (ESV) 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. 7 All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
Ecclesiastes 1:8–10 (ESV) 8 All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 (ESV) 11 There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.
vIf we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. – C.S. Lewis