What would make you happy? Is it enormous wealth, success, intelligence, or talent? Is it a spouse, or children, a home, or a car? Is it education, the right job, or pleasures in life? The search for happiness in the world is a grievous task.
There are so many things that yield no answers. So many things that don't bring true satisfaction in life. These things are futile without Me. Life with Me brings true contentment and joy. Seek the Kingdom of God first. I keep people so busy enjoying life that they think very little about the fleeting days of their life.
The outcome of people who love Me is joy. The hopes of the wicked come to nothing. I want to fill you with all joy and peace as you trust Me, so that you may overflow with hope.
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. “Laughter,” I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—My mind still guiding Me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives. I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in My house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before Me. I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem as well—the delights of a man’s heart. I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before Me. In all this My wisdom stayed with Me. I denied myself nothing My eyes desired; I refused My heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all My labor, and this was the reward for all My toil. Yet when I surveyed all that My hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.
— Ecclesiastes 5:20
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