Focusing our Investment (Eccl. 2:17-19)

Every one of us is an investor of talents and resources. Solomon's reasoning here gives us a powerful back door argument for investing in people. We have no guarantee that anything we leave behind will be properly managed. For a variety of reasons, the hard earned results of the diligent tend to fade quickly into the forgotten fog. From many different angles, the truth of Scripture points in one direction: Focus your efforts on serving God through serving people.

So, today . . . How will you invest? In mere projects, personal dreams, or vain entertainment? Or will we look around at the individuals God has placed in our lives--many who will outlive us--and be a blessing to them?

The Lord makes sure these investments pay off.

Forever.

(Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun . . . )