Monday, April 21, 2008

Everything is Meaningless

This excerpt is from the old testament and I think that it goes right along with my thinking. Pastor Don mentioned it in yesterdays service at College Church in Northampton Ma...It comes from the book Ecclesiastes Chapter 5 verse 8 thru 17.......... If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.....Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. this too is meaningless.......As good increase, so do those who consume them. and what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?.....The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep........I have seen a grievous evil under the sun;.......wealth is hoarded to the harm of its owner, or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when he has a son there is nothing left for him. Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes so he departs....He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand......This too is a grievous evil......As a man comes so he departs, and what does he gain,since he toils for the wind? All his days he eats in darkness, with great affliction and anger..........Can't take it with you when your gone so why not share it with everybody on God's green earth....To much like the right thing to do........Social Change in Mind

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