Are You Searching For Meaning?

Are you thinking that if you had more money or greater success, you would be happy? Tennis star Boris Becker said: "I had won Wimbledon twice before, once as the youngest player.  I was rich. I had all the material possessions I needed...it's the old song of movie stars and pop stars who commit suicide.  They have everything, and yet they are so unhappy.  I had no inner peace."   Solomon made the same discover. "I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind." Solomon tried religion, education, money, public works projects, fame, creative writing, and sensual pleasure: "I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor...Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had tolled to achieve, everything was meaningless" (Ecc 2:10-11 NIV).  Finally, in the last chapter of the book of Ecclesiates, Solomon finds what he is looking for:  "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind" (Ecc 12:13 NIV).  Solomon discovered that life is not built on things but on relationships.  And the first and foremost relationship you must have is a relationship with God.  You say, "How do I find God?" Through Christ!  Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me" (Jn 14:6 NKJV).  Today, you can have a life-changing relationship with God by putting your trust in Jesus Christ.

This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today