Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.
Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.
If we live for ourselves, getting everything we enjoy and desire, that is all we have - the stuff. This is an empty pursuit, something you cannot hold onto any more than you can hold the wind in your grasp. The only real profit is the eternal, so to seek first God's kingdom and living to please Him is the only lasting pleasure to hold onto.
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