People always seem to be searching for the good life. But what is the good life anyway? For some, it’s a successful career. For others, it’s getting married and having a family. For still others, it may be financial security…
Whatever a person’s idea of the good life is, it usually means having or doing something more than they have or can do now.
The writer of Ecclesiastes had an insatiable appetite for the good life. Read through the opening chapters of Ecclesiastes and you’ll see that he tried knowledge and education, pleasure and entertainment, wealth and possessions. He partied, plotted, and perused everything the world has to offer! He acquired much and achieved much.
But in the end he was left empty inside.
Human nature hasn’t changed much in the past 3,000 years. Many people still search for the good life in all the wrong places.
We can do things to try to find true happiness, but if we are doing all this in a vacuum, if we are doing all this surrounded by emptiness – emptiness of meaning, emptiness of hope, emptiness of anything that matters, we will never be satisfied.
That’s why God chose to fill our emptiness. He did so in the Person of Jesus. Where there was once an awful nothingness, now abides the fullness of our Savior.
His perfect life and death on our behalf destroyed the chasm that had surrounded us, isolated us, and made us so alone!
Then He rose from death, just to assure us that our days of emptiness were over; to assure us that we would never be alone again… Ever.
Nothing satisfies like Jesus. The greatest discovery in life is to learn that losing ourselves in Christ and in His purpose for life – is the only way to have true, everlasting joy.
Dan ~