This passage from the book of Ecclesiastes shows what to many is the ‘meaningless’ activity of our lives. There are two questions which the writer asks. The first is ‘What do people gain from all their labours at which they toil under the sun?’ He then describes the repetitive cycles of the created world …. ‘generations come and generations go’ ……. ‘the sun rises and sets’ ……. ‘the wind blows to the south and turns to the north’  ….’ the streams flow into the sea  yet the sea is never full’. He then concludes ‘all things are wearisome’.

The second question asks ‘Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”?’ then the writer laments …….’it was here already, long ago; it was here before our time’ …….. ‘even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them’.

This sadly leaves out the most wonderful part …. the marvelous plan of the Creator God and Saviour.  When we see Him by faith as the one who is perfectly ordering all these things, the unsatisfying becomes full of meaning and purpose. The knowledge and experience of His grace, God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense, leads us into a new life which involves a relationship with Him that lasts for all eternity.