Sunday, July 1, 2018

Pleasures


Ecclesiastes 2:3; 10-11

I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
    I refused my heart no pleasure.My heart took delight in all my labor,    and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done    and what I had toiled to achieve,everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;    nothing was gained under the sun.


As we head into the 4th of July celebration, you often see parties with lots of drinking and sometimes people doing other questionable things that they think will bring them pleasure.  King Soloman was no different, he denied himself nothing that gave him pleasure.  He had 300 concubines and 700 wives.  He had a huge palace, yet in the end, it was all meaningless. 

I think many in the world today are very similar.  People chase after pleasures that they think will make them happy, only to find that it is a short lived pleasure, and in the end, they are left empty again. 

Brothers and sisters in Christ, today I want you to think about what brings you pleasure.  Is it something that in the end is meaningless?  Or are you living a life filled with pleasures that are pleasing to God?


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