Ready or not there it goes

Ecclesiastes 2:18-23, "Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what hat a man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. this is also vanity."

So it seems that Solomon had finally come face to face with the age old adage, you can't take it with you when you go. Imagine what a drastic reality this is to someone who literally had everything this world had to offer. You mean that I spent my whole life amassing wealth and possessions and i just have to leave it to some fool who won't know how to use it properly. What exactly was the point in this.

Many would do well to grasp a hold of this basic principle before they vainly waste away their life, as it says in Proverbs 15:16-17, "Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." Sadly Solomon knew this in his youth and forsook it, only to regret that decision in his old age. Now we know that there is nothing wrong with leaving an inheritance, the issue is not leaving an inheritance, it is that Solomons life had been spent in the pursuit of amassing things for himself rather than using his life in being a blessing to others.

I wonder how many are hitching up waggons to their hearses today only to be sadly disappointed when they are planted all alone.