Welcome to Gospel in Life.

Have you ever found yourself asking,

What if nothing I do really lasts?

Is this all there is?

In today's podcast, Tim Keller looks at how Ecclesiastes helps us face our doubts, fears, and uncertainties,

and points us to the lasting hope and significance we have in Christ.

Ecclesiastes chapter 2, verses 70 to 26, and then right after that, as we have done a couple of times,

a passage on the same subject, just a little further down in the book, Ecc right after that, as we have done a couple of times, a passage on the same subject,

just a little further down in the book, Ecclesiastes 4 to 8.

So, it's a great way to start, isn't it?

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun

was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things

I had toiled for under the sun because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows

whether he will be a wise man or a fool. Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun.

This too is meaningless.

So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.

For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then he may leave

all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. He must. This too is meaningless and a great

misfortune. What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under

the sun? All his days he works, his work is pain and grief, and even at night his mind does not rest.

This, too, is meaningless. A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction

in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him who can eat or find enjoyment.

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