It's All Pointless

I know I really need to start posting more, but it's hard getting into a groove to do so with a wacky schedule like mine.

Recently my Bible reading has taken me to Ecclesiastes. So for the next few days, I'll be talking about that. It's some really good stuff.

Please now read chapter 1 of Ecclesiastes

We see that this is written by a son of David, most likely Solomon. And it's interesting to see how he starts off his book.

Everything is meaningless. Everything quickly fades away.

He tells of how time passes despite the work that we do.
He tells of how the wind just constantly goes around and around
And of how the streams and rivers constantly flow into the ocean yet the ocean never fills
He writes of how we are constantly receiving information, seeing and hearing, yet we constantly seek more
And he tells of how everything comes around again, how history will repeat itself.
There is nothing new under the sun.

Yes, we may have new technologies and new ways to communicate, share information, travel, etc. But is any of it new? We're still communicating, something we've done since the beginning of time. We're still sharing information, something we have always done, and is also the point of communication. We still travel, which is what they did in the beginning by walking. We do the same tricks in new ways thanks to the inventions of man.

Not only do we do the same basic things that our ancestors did in new ways, but we also sin in new ways.

Sexual immorality
Substance abuse
Greed
Being lazy
Idols

These few examples are all sins (Note on being lazy. There's nothing wrong with having a lazy day off, but constantly putting rest before anything else is a sin of laziness, putting your rest before God and his mission.)

These sins can be done in new ways that our grandparents, even our parents couldn't do.
Do you know how easy it is to have sexual sin in your life? All you have to do is get on the internet and bam, you are assaulted with sexual sin between social media and any number of websites. Your parents didn't have this problem that way, but they still had this problem.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Looking at the last few verses, we see the Solomon writes that he has made it his mission to "seek out by wisdom all that is done under heaven." What he is saying is that he is looking to see what the point of everything is, why are things done, how are they done, and what purpose do they serve. He then says that this is a sorrowful task for man to do. Why is that? Verse 18 tells us, "For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow."

All of this comes back to what he starts off with: Everything is meaningless.

Everything that we do on earth, everything that we strive for, money, fame, girls, guys, the newest gadgets, the best games, all of it is meaningless. All of it is like chasing after the wind. And when we begin to evaluate the things we deem important, we see that this is true. When we become wise we see that everything that we've chased after is meaningless.

When we take away everything that we value, and stand it against time, everything will fade away. All but Christ.

He will be the only thing that remains.