Where is our treasure?

Well I finished reading Job and now am reading Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes is an interesting and very sad book, most people think it was written by King Solomon and I think the relevance to today’s culture is amazing. You know how people always say “Oh, even though rich people seem to be happy with all the possessions they have, they aren’t”? Ecclesiastes proves that. King Solomon was extremely blessed, he was wise, rich, popular…he had it all. But at some time in his life, he lost it. He married foreign women and followed their religions which resulted in him leaving God. The book Ecclesiastes is pretty shocking, how could someone with so much stuff open up and say it’s all meaningless? Well without God, it is. When life becomes a competition to see who has the most stuff in the end it is meaningless. I love to play monopoly with my friends, but when the game is over it’s just that, a game we pick up all the pieces and put them back. In Matthew Jesus said to “store up for [ourselves] treasure in heaven…” Matthew 6: 20. All this stuff we have: houses, cars, books, computers, they’re all meaningless unless they are used for God. Life here on earth is short, I was thinking about how sad it is that Michael Jackson died so young and the really tragic thing is that such a gifted man gave his life away to nothing. Solomon had the potential to be like his father, “a man after God’s heart” but he threw everything away. We have the potential to be tools in God’s hands, to do great things through Him we just have to let go of the stuff from this world and follow.