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Vanities

We all know the conclusion of The Preacher "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity". What made this wise rich man reach this conclusion? (You'd have to read Ecclesiastes and more to get your own answer).

My attempt to answer the question:

Man is born.
Man gets an education.
Man gets a job or starts a viable business.
Man gets married, have children.
Man grows old and die.

(A few people live their lives to bless others and some even have legacies that bless generations. They are immortalised and their good deeds become encouragement for many.)

That's a typical life.

But all the good works we do here will be nothing if we do not make it to heaven. It is better not be born than to be born and not make it to heaven.

Life with all its glories is VANITY without Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 1:3 says "What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?"

I will make heaven in Jesus name. You will make it too.

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