Sept. 29, 2019
In Ecclesiastes we are following Solomon’s quest to find the meaning of life, the more he looked into the things around him the more he struggled to make sense of his world. Solomon was like someone who chased the sun and no matter how far he ran the sun was still the same distance away. The early church father Augustine summarized Ecclesiastes’ message like this: “Solomon gives over the entire book of Ecclesiastes to suggesting, with such fullness as he judged adequate, the emptiness of this life, with the ultimate objective, to be sure, of making us yearn for another kind of life which is no unsubstantial shadow under the sun, but substantial reality under the sun’s Creator.”
