"Oh, how I prospered! I left all my predecessors in Jerusalem far behind, left them behind in the dust. What's more, I kept a clear head through it all. Everything I wanted I took—I never said no to myself. I gave in to every impulse, held back nothing. I sucked the marrow of pleasure out of every task—my reward to myself for a hard day's work!
Then I took a good look at everything I'd done, looked at all the sweat and hard work. But when I looked, I saw nothing but smoke. Smoke and spitting into the wind. There was nothing to any of it. Nothing."
~I don't want to look back on my life and say, "Nothing". I want to look back and know I followed the Lord in my life. I don't want to regret the time I let slip away because I was too busy pursuing "every impulse". It's hard to go against our "me first" culture and world, but when my focus stays on the One who created and controls this earth, it becomes a little easier. At the end of my life, I want to hear Him say, "Well done".~
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