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Ecclesiastes 1:4-8
Excerpted from: Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 1)In verse 4 of Ecclesiastes 1, he further states his purpose, and in this case he is beginning to state why he found life to be vain and empty and futile.
He begins to direct your thinking toward the kind of world that we live in. On the one hand, it is constantly changing, as with the seasons. Sometimes it is raining; sometimes it is sunshine; sometimes it is cloudy and no rain falls. Sometimes it is hot; sometimes it is cold; and yet even though these things are going on, the seasons change from one to the other and there is constant repetition, yet nothing really changes.
Summer disappears and on comes fall. What happens every fall? The leaves change color and they fall from the trees; the trees are bare and then comes snow. It gets cold and then spring comes and everything seems to be reborn. Summer comes and it gets hot and you see that cycle repeating itself over and over again. Even though there is constant change—everything is changing, but everything remains the same. You have heard the statement, "The more things change, the more things stay the same." That begins to become a part of the theme. He is drawing from this a general picture of hopelessness because there is no enduring quality to the environment in which we live.
He wants you to go one step further, and that is that happiness does not come from nature. That is not where life and its right quality are. This is because nature, though it does witness of a Creator, it does not of itself give meaning to life. It witnesses to the fact that there is life. It witnesses to the fact that its life came from somewhere, but because it is constantly repetitious, nature does not give us any real direction concerning life's meaning.
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