CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION

Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines VANITY as: emptiness; want of substance to satisfy desire; uncertainty; inanity. Roget’s Thesaurus identifies the synonyms for VANITY: futility, meaningless and emptiness. The Rolling Stones accurately defined the experience of Vanity in the classic rock song, “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction!”

Hear the Word of the Lord:

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

What profit hath a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever.

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place where he arose.

The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, ‘See, this is new?” It has been already of old time, which was before us.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. Eccl. 1:1-11

So, what’s the point of living? Where is the meaning of all our effort to survive? We are here today and gone tomorrow! All we experience is “Same ol’, same ol’! And when we are gone we will fade from the memory of the living.

NO SATISFACTION

LIFE SUCKS, AND THEN YOU DIE

LIFE IS MEANINGLESS

And yet, LIFE DOES HAVE MEANING, but ONLY because there is an ETERNAL EXSISTENCE.  An existence experienced in HEAVEN or in THE LAKE OF FIRE.

“God will repay each person according to what they have done.”  To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:….” Rom. 2:6-9

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

We will ALL spend eternity in the presence of God. The experience will be either as “The Apples of His Eye”, or as “The Objects of His Wrath.”

"Thus says the LORD, 'The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, but no one will gather them.'" Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.…Jer. 9:22-24