Food for thought- Life is a continuum, but it will also conform to the first law of motion some day!

I found these verses in Ecclesiastes 1

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.

The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full;

to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done,

and there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”?

It has been already in the ages before us.

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.

Sitting in the quietness of my place of retreat, I pondered these words, then I continued reading and musing, and I got to this place in Ecclesiastes 2:24-26

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God.

We may have different opinions on this, but it is clear to me that best path to follow for one to really have a life of contentment and fulfillment is to acknowledge the place of God, the creator, the director, the saviour, the one who justifies and the redeemer in one's life and handover the course of that life to Him.

For further understanding of the futility of life without God, please make a plan to read the book of Ecclesiastes, its only 12 short chapters, but the wisdom there is unsurpassed. What would you expect, it was written by the greatest and wisest king the earth has ever seen.