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Post by gsmithb on Apr 28, 2014 1:55:41 GMT
Correct me if I'm off base, but I believe Ecc. 6:1-2 is this:
a man can have many riches and may be considered an important person but if he has no satisfaction or rest, it is all vanity. Riches and prestige means little if God is not the most important aspect of life.
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Post by richard on Apr 28, 2014 5:23:13 GMT
Elsewhere Paul puts the same idea in these words: “Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, let us therewith be content”. Here is the tranquil life. It recognizes that life is temporal and that all its pride and possession must end in death. How many men have slaved in order to retire comfortably and then have died almost before they have settled to their retirement. Often these men in their search for riches, in the apostle’s words, “pierce themselves through with many sorrows”. Even if a man achieves his ambition and takes his comfort in retirement he may be like the American millionaire and find that he is precluded from enjoying even the food which his riches could buy.
“There is an evil which I have seen . . . a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it” (Eccl. 6 : 1–2). Such a situation makes nonsense of a man’s ambitions. The beggar who enjoys his crust is happier in his eating than the rich dyspeptic.
(2001). The Christadelphian, 86(electronic ed.), 57.
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