Ecclesiastes 2:17 "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wroght under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
So Solomon has done everything that this world has to offer and after all of it he comes to the conclusion that he hates life. I have met many people who have come to that same end. Just think about all the movie and rock stars who have killed themselves or given themselves to lives of drunkenness and drugs. They don't do that because they love life, could it be that they came to the same place that Solomon did, to find out that this world doesn't bring satisfaction.
Unfortunately many believers hate life as well, the reason is that they are looking for joy in the same way. They may sing "oh how I love Jesus", but in their daily actions they are saying "oh how I want the world" such a life will not lead to joy, it can only lead to sorrow. That kind of life will lead to more sorrow than it will for a lost man, because the saved man has the Holy Spirit of God within them that will convict them as they walk away from the path of the Lord.
I sure don't want to hate life, and as long as the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me, I won't.
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