Everything is Meaningless Without God

Scripture Reading: Ecclesiastes 1

Focus Verse: Ecclesiastes 1:14  “I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless, like chasing after the wind.”

America and Kenya both have the lottery game.  The lottery is where you can pay a little money and have an unbelievably small chance to win lots of money.  Here in America someone just recently won $1 billion dollars. That's the same as 115 billion Kenya shillings.  If you want to know the truth, the real winner was the US Government because the tax paid by the winner to the government was $400 million dollars!  The government also got some money from all those tickets that were purchased.  So if you just enjoy giving the government money, the lottery is how you do it.

 

There are a couple reasons you should never play the lottery.  First, you will not win.  Did you know that your chance to win is very small. The chances to win the jackpot are 1 in 300,000,000. Let me put that into perspective.  If I had 300 million people write their names on little pieces of paper and we put all those little pieces of paper into one big pile on a field, do you think I could pull your name out of the pile?  The answer is NO!  The second reason you should never play is that money does not bring you happiness.  What about the winners? I was reading that most of the people who have won the lottery game have lost all that big amount of money within 7 years and some were even in debt, lost friends and family and their life is miserable.  They didn't find happiness.

Let's see what the Word of God says.  Solomon the writer of Ecclesiastes had it all.  He had money; he had power; he had women. Try and think of something in this world that could make you happy, and he probably had it. As he came near the end of his life, after trying to find happiness in all these things, he says in verse 2 “Everything is meaningless, completely meaningless.”  And verse 14 “I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless, like chasing after the wind.”  Have you ever tried to catch the wind?  You can’t do it, it slips right through your fingers.  Proverbs 23:5 says, “In the blink of an eye money disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle.”  Solomon had it all, and he realized it was all meaningless.  If you take God out of your life you will be left empty, meaningless and without purpose.  This world is looking for purpose and meaning that only God can fill.

 

Let's invest our lives for God and find true meaning and value.

Bobby Johnson

Interlocking Ministries

 

Illustration: This is a picture of 1 million coins.  Imagine 300 boxes of these coins and that is what 300 million would look like.  Pick one with your name on it?  You are chasing the wind.