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The Diary of a Not-so-Wimpy King

King Solomon, the wisest man to ever live, made this comment "All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full" (Ecc 1:7). He was one man whose bank account would make Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs look like street peddlers. His wisdom far surpassed our world's greatest minds. With money flowing, countless employees, women of all races, fame, and the most powerful position on earth, in his time, he confesses in his biography (in the book of Ecclesiastes) that "it was all meaningless and a chase after the wind".

He devoted his entire life to obtaining wisdom only to find that the fool and the wise both die the same. Soloman states "the fate of the fool will overtake me also, what then do i gain by being wise" (Ecc 2:14).

Gaining riches... meaningless.. it only meant... that all your hard labor... was passed on to an undeserving fool.. About his wisdom he states "with great wisdom, comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief" Ecc 1:18. How can a man who seemingly has it all look at life and all of its adventures as meaningless. What hope does it give us who live pay check to pay check, have aquired a mass amount of debt, who are married to our jobs to raise a family and support our meaningless "habits"?

"What is twisted cannot be straightened, what is lacking cannot be counted" Ecc 1:15. Solomon found that in the end, you cant fudge the books and we cant fix the broken. If we put all our efforts into trying to fix, we will fail.

Solomon determined that men like animals even after all their work and accomplishments meet the same fate in the end... "all come from dust, and to dust all return" (Ecc 3:20). The only thing man can do, since his fate it to work, is to enjoy the work that he does. If one does not, than all he will find is misery.

This outlook on life is not preached alot from the pulpit. It is not socially appreciated as it is a negative (emo-like) view on life. One struggling with depression would find this biography devastating. And yet it bleeds through the pages like a like a damp glass. It stains the hearts of the readers with the reality of life. Guru's quotes of spiritual awakening and Joel Osteen's positive limmericks are hushed by the deafening sounds of Solomon's truthful prose. It is all truly meaningless!

You can pack out stadiums with words of forgiveness, yet if one never forgives himself, he always carries his chains... You can publish positive quotes in calendars but if the words are not adhered, they are mere words... you can promise "change", but actions are deafening... You can make peace, but if ur enemy harbors hate, you will never change them... This is the only truth...

We can sit in church pews and secretly burn... We can give to the poor, but choke with greed... We can help a friend, but destroy the heart of an enemy... We worry so much about the sins of others and yet we refuse to break down our hearts and complete an inventory on all our parts... we are broken and barely running... yet we find something new to patch our stains... this too becomes meaningless and we run to the darkness searching for light... and are swallowed up by the sea of discontent...

in our last moments...we realize.. that our facebook status's, posed pictures, our bank statement, our plans for the weekend, the possessions that collect dust around the house.... were really all meaningless... the one and only thing that matters... in the end... is our true intent... our purpose... our legacy...

May we all work as hard on humility as we do on status.....

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