Life is Useless

By Pastor Alfred Massaquoi

Ecclesiastics 1:1-18

Introduction

Today, fewer people attain true fulfillment of their lives. You spend your time working very hard, and all of a sudden you die and leave behind everything. 

Have you ever heard your grandmother, or perhaps, your great grandfather ever told you the world has changed – for instance – that the sun failed to rise, and failed to set?

Sun, Wind & Sea – Natural Phenomenon

Don’t you see for yourself the sun begins all over again where it goes down. What about the wind? The wind blows round and round and back again. And the sea is never full with waters so much that it cannot contain its waters, but the water returns to where the river began, and starts all over again.

Eyes & Ears – Wonderfully Made

No day have your eyes ever told you that it is enough – your eyes are not satisfied because you look at everything your eyes see; and your ears don’t get tired of hearing. Yes, your ears are very inquisitive.

There is nothing new in the world because whatever you see and hear today happened generations long before you and I were born.

Uselessly Chasing the Wind

Wise King Solomon said all things done in this world are useless chasing the wind, that you cannot straighten out what is crooked, and you can’t count things that don’t exist.

Despite the wisdom and knowledge of Solomon, he wanted to know the difference between knowledge and foolishness, wisdom and madness, but he discovered he was wrong – a chase after the wind!

The reason being is that the wiser you become the more worries you have, the more you know, the more your blood pressure goes up that things aren’t done well your way.

Conclusion

Solomon presents life to us as being bleak – it’s the reality of life, though embarrassing. Death is as realistic as the sun, the wind, and the sea. We should understand that as long as we live with sound health, our eyes and ears would never  alter their functions. It’s God’s gift when we see varying colors and when we listen to every sound humanly possible.

We uselessly chase after the wind because, personally, we cannot change the earth’s physical infrastructure as perfectly as God.

Conversely, our increased knowledge of science and the universe, medicine, human pyschology, and of academic excellence brings us lesser and lesser to God’s infatiquable wisdom and Majesty. Thus, our knowing too much is a vexation to the soul.

Finally, Solomon said life is useless, useless, all useless.