Life Lived under the Sun

Many people today are searching for the meaning in life, but in all the wrong places. Trying to find eternal meaning in a temporal world is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hold. God made us for eternity, and only His eternal presence in our lives can satisfy our thirst for meaning. For decades, Solomon tried to find meaning in life through riches, extravagant and wild living, his work as King, and through the study of philosophies and beliefs of others. Ecclesiastes is the history of that ill-fated search, written at the end of his life when he came to the conclusion of his youth: God is at the center of life and to ignore God makes life vain and meaningless. Life is a matter of deceptive illusions when it is lived apart from God. The things that disappointed Solomon are the same illusions the world uses today. We must learn from Solomon's mistakes so we don't fall into the same traps.