This Post is not dedicated for studies but of personal review.
Ecclesiastes started off saying how bored life really is and immediately I found myself related and understood what the author felt and had written.
"Life is meaningless!" The author said it with convince. Everyday, we live in the same routine, finding ways to keep lives' sane, well fed, well-educated, full economic support. We live through this same repetitive routine until we are all fed up and felt sick of life.
We ask God or any other people: "What is the purpose of Life?"
We have all kinds of convenient technologies, we lived through a planned resolution, we bought many great and usable things. As an old proverb says: " New things come, old things thrown out", but no matter how many things we get, we never will feel a full satisfaction. Why? We feel empty inside.
We even have friends, but all of them will forget about you. Whatever you did for people, people will remember for few hours and then forget you forever.
There's such little or no encouragement living "under the sun", as the sun rises and sets down and it rises up again at its usual point: every thing runs in the same routine.
However, it is claimed that there is hope, that there is grace, that there is great change. There is something new that bring us out in living under the sun but bring us to live in the Son. Who is this Son? Personally, I know is Jesus Christ. I know what he did, I love and felt unworthy of God's work through at the cross.
I want to know who is he! I want to experience the gift he mentions, the rest that he promised in Matthew 11. His spiritual blessings during the time of Pentecost. The Bible says in order to receive this rest and to obtain this peace and hope not living under the sun but living in the Son, I must Fear God and Obey His Commands.
One thing I am not sure of is, What is exactly God's Command? Is it a law or a set of rules to follow; a ritual that I must keep like the worship of Jewish and Muslim rituals. Or is it a spiritual presence or a being that will counsel my every personal steps?
References: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Ecclesiastes 1:1-11)
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