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| Ecclesiastes 2:18-21 |
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Lesson # Eccl. 2:18-21 Study Material - Eccl. 2:18-21 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Eccl. 2:18-21 18 Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity. 20 Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun. 21 When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge and skill, then he gives his legacy to one who has not labored with them. This too is vanity and a great evil. This business of the world is not without its pain. Mental pain that is. We can work hard and create an estate if we are lucky enough. We gain an education or simply apply our unique common sense to life. We gain employment with a huge salary, or enter into business with its promising profits and then the worry begins. Do we speculate and become aggressive in our investments, or remain conservative and hold on to our interest payments? Do we deal with employee issues, tax issues, inventory issues, capital expenditure issues, marketing issues? How do we approach all of these? How much do we delegate and to whom? So now we are at the end of our life, ready for retirement or at least to scale back on our working hours and try to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Do we scale back? How much? Who will replace us? Who will handle the business? Is retirement enough? Will be need some kind of supplemental income? Then the big question hits us. An heir to our estate. Hummm! Will they act as prudently as we have? Or, will they take what they can and squander it all irresponsibly and in an ungrateful attitude towards us? We live. We accumulate. We die. Who get it all then? We can't take it to heaven with us! Assuming that we are indeed going to heaven. We can hope that all of us have at least believed in Christ at some point in our lives, even if we believed while very young. Then we have heaven to look forward to. But what else? We have squandered our lives by emphasizing the things in life, the accumulation of an estate, and a comfortable life. We forgot to invest in our own future. By ignoring God we have prepared an estate for our heirs, an estate of worldly things, but we did not prepare a portfolio in our eternal life. So what do these verses teach? That by ignoring God we work for the benefit of others and not ourselves. Even in eternity we lose our eternal 'extra' rewards to others, because those rewards go to those who have advanced to maturity or some progress in that direction. When we get into the gospels further we will see some parables which teach this principle. What remains for those who ignore Bible doctrine, is frustration, dissatisfaction, the constant nagging worries that all combine to ruin ones relaxation in life. For those who ignore Bible study there is no true peace, or stability, or security in life. We work hard for what we have, then worry about what an heir will do with it. But our worries are misplaced. God has given us three capital assets with which we are to invest in our own lives and we generally fail in that task. Time, Bible doctrine, and our own volition have been made available to us. God gave these to us in order that we might build up huge estates in our soul and in our eternal reward status, but how many look to this world with their energies and invest in that little drop of water we call out life span. The ocean the size of the universe is out there and our little droplet is nothing compared to it. Wouldn't it be wiser to look to that ocean and invest in it - long term, rather than in the short term? No matter how smart you might be. You might be a rocket scientist. You might be brilliant in real estate, or in the stock market. You might have a tremendous talent in writing or film or sports, or you might be totally paralyzed from the ears down. Regardless of your status in life, the important thing to do is to get your priorities straightened out in life, which is to place Bible study first and daily in your routine, then what ever else you might encounter in life will be an enhancement to your spiritual life, and you will be the happier for it. You'll have a wonderful life and, even better, a wonderful eternity. 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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