Heralds Digest

  “Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done. And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭2:11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ It is true that not many are privileged to experience affluence, authority, and material prosperity; and that is why many would readily desire the prospect of satisfaction with these privileged experiences. Notwithstanding, the very few who have looked or reflected, after attaining these experiences cannot agree less about the preacher’s acclaimed vanity and the grasping for the wind. Those who have education are not satisfied until they get a career. Those who have a career are not satisfied until they get to the highest heights of their career progression. Then, they become unsatisfied with wanting a family. Those with family are worried about the extension of their possessions with family members. These concerns and the lack of a sustained satisfaction in the exten...

"For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭2:26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/ecc.2.26.nkjv A purposeless pursuit does not necessarily result in a want of material profits or an absence of worldly enrichment. In fact, the Preacher's experience confirms the possibility of an abundance of enjoyment and provision of worldly amusement, which may be freely at the possessor's beck and call. However, these enrichments bring little satisfaction or no fulfilling pleasure to the soul, because a purposeless pursuit is primarily concerned about self-satisfaction. Although the work of gathering and collecting the benefits of life appears to favour certain privileged men, the same men are less favoured with satisfaction without a commensurate commitment to the expected spi...