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Ecclesiastes chapter 2, verse 11,

that I considered all that my hands had done,

and the toil that I had expended in doing it.

And behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind,

and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Oh, what a verse to meditate on and pray according to on Good Friday.

Here in verse 11, Solomon, who's the author of Ecclesiastes, is considering all the ways

he has sought in the world to satisfy himself.

And he basically describes different pursuits and possessions and pleasures he has sought

in the world. And he gets to the end. He says, I've done everything. Whatever my eyes desired, I did not

keep from them. I went after everything I saw, he says in verse 10. And then I looked back and it was all

vanity. It was all a striving after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun. What a picture for you and I to see

today that when we look around the world and all that it offers, everything, this is like Jesus

saying to us, what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world like you can have it all and yet Jesus says

lose your soul miss the whole point this verse is shouting to you and me not to spend our lives

running after all the pursuits and possessions and pleasures of the world that will ultimately be found

empty. Take it from Solomon. He had it all. He says it's all empty in the end. So what does this

have to do with Good Friday? Here's what this has to do with Good Friday. Our souls were made

for satisfaction in one place, and that's in relationship with God,

and the satisfaction that only God himself can bring.

And Jesus went to a cross to pay the price for all of our sins against God,

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