Whatever God gives you that is legitimate, you have the privilege and opportunity to max it out.

But Dr. Tony Evans says it's possible to enjoy God's blessings while losing sight of God himself.

Don't let God's goodness for you cause you to forget God.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Have you ever noticed how quickly something new can lose its appeal?

Today, Dr. Evans explains why that's more than just a passing feeling.

It's a reflection of life lived without God.

Let's join him in the book of Ecclesiastes

as he reveals the vital connection between God

and a life of lasting purpose.

The theme of the book is life under the sun.

It's viewing life under the sun

as a man struggles with how life looks

unless God is intruding into it. And he says life on its own merit

under the sun on earth where people live, work, play, raise families is vanity. Vanity means

emptiness or without ultimate purpose and meaning.

And all of us knows what that is.

We've experienced the letdown of a new car becoming old,

of a new house becoming old, of something exciting,

losing its vim, vigor, and vitality, and all of a sudden it becomes

dull and meaningless. You see it every Christmas when you were raising your children or even

when you were a child and Christmas morning, everybody's all excited and kids come down and

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