what will last?

Ec 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

What a profound question. If you remember yesterday Solomon was looking back at his life and saying that it was all emptiness and nothing. Now He asks this question, what will be the sum total of all the things that you have done in your life? When you face God and you look back will your life have counted for anything, or will it have been wasted in vanity?

Someone once said, "Only one life twill soon be past, only whats done for Christ will last." How true it is that nothing done in our own power lasts. If your family is not established by the wisdom of God it will fall apart, if your work is outside the realm of His control it will amount to nothing, if your life's pursuits are beyond the will of God they will amount only to vanity. The most amazing accomplishments in this world are soon forgotten, we remember only the most relatively recent things. The largest buildings still crumble. Yet, we may do things of true lasting value, if we are willing to subject ourselves to His Word and will for our lives. The things that we can take with us into eternity are not gold and silver, but are souls and service from a pure motive of love for the Lord.