Vanity

 
You’re born – you live – you die. Sounds cold, doesn’t it. We’ve been studying the book of Ecclesiastes in Sunday school.

“Vanity. All is vanity,” Solomon said, looking back as an old man. After all, he was the wisest man on earth.

But that rubs against our grain. We cherish life: our family, our health, our possessions, out trophies, our faith.

“No, these are not vanity,” you say.

I’m not talking about precious moments that will live forever in our heart.

Five hundred years from now, will anyone know about you and your stuff? Only if you are listed in a genealogy or a book that somebody reads. Statues are rare

One thing in life is not vanity – only one, and we cling to it with reverence. Thanks to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, our salvation will get us to heaven. That’s forever.
 
Without it, all is vanity – all is vanity.