Testimony

Based on the world’s standards, I had it all while I was growing up. I had money, friends, a car, nice clothes, a boyfriend and many opportunities to “have fun.” After years of chasing material things I painfully realized how quickly it can (and eventually will be) all be destroyed, amounting to absolutely nothing. I can relate a lot to what the author of Ecclesiastes must have felt when he too realized that the pleasures in this world really are meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

“I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;

I refused my heart no pleasure.

My heart took delight in all my work,

and this was the reward for all my labor.
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.