A Little Bit of Faith: Change Your Focus

“I denied myself nothing…I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work…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…” (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).  Does this sound like you? This passage can actually sound like all of us from time to time.

It is suggested that Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes. The book focuses on if a person’s life is not focused on God, then it is meaningless, life has no purpose, and life is not satisfying. All of us, from time to time, can relate to the passage. We may have, at one point in our lives, focused on reaching some type of success. It may have been financial success or some other form of material success, but we were running after it. Then once we may have achieved the ultimate success for ourselves, realized it wasn’t what we expected it to be. It can leave us with an empty feeling.

There is only one person who can fill the emptiness that lives in all of us and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. He can fill the dark places in our souls and teach us how to truly live.  Learning how to live for Christ is so much more rewarding because we take the focus off of ourselves and focus on what He (Christ) would have us to do.  Are you ready to change your focus? I know I am. Amen? Amen.