Ec 1:4 ¶ One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Solomon here takes not of the never ending process of life, it is never finished. If my wife were writing this she would say one load comes out of the washer and another goes in, my work is never done. The sun never stops, the wind never stops, the rivers keep running and what are they all accomplishing. No matter how much I do I never make any progress. Oh, the utter futility of life without God.
I often wander how someone copes who does not have the Lord. Many people seem to just work so that they can play with no real direction for their lives. What ever happens in life happens and they at best hope to get to the place in their life that they can retire and stop working for no apparent purpose other than to stop working. Life without Christ is aimless and futile.
It is wonderful to have a purpose and goal in life as a believer, to get up every day with the goal of serving the Lord, and pleasing Him. How great to meet each day with a purpose and to face life with the promise of greater blessings to come. I tell you this Christian life is anything but mundane and futile, it is the greatest adventure that you can have in this world to walk with God. He will take you places and show you things that you never imagined and all the while you will find that those things that He sustains are glorious rather than vain.
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