Life Has Meaning In Work
Channel: HarborPointe community church
Date: 07/10/2014

What is the meaning of life? I suppose that question will trouble us humans as long as we live… and had troubled smarter people than I for an awfully long time. Take the writer of Ecclesiastes for instance. He starts out with a  very modern day assertion that life is meaningless (Ecclesiastes 1:1-2). Shortly after we die, all of us will be unremembered (Ecclesiastes 1:3, 11).

And, the more we figure out about life the less we seem to really know for sure (Ecclesiastes 1:12-14, 18).

Many of us have hoped that pleasure might be the key… (Ecclesiastes 2:1-3, 10) but it’s satisfactions always seem short term at best. Materialism seems to have a little bit longer life span, but it too never fully satisfies (Ecclesiastes 2:4-11). The net gain seems to be depression

(Ecclesiastes 2:17-23).

At the end of Ecclesiastes, the conclusion seems to be that life is in God’s hands, not ours… so let’s cooperate with him. Let’s take life on his terms not ours (Ecclesiastes 12:13). We need to be faithful to our calling, whatever that might be.  Our work, our daily job helps to define what our purpose is for each day (Ecclesiastes 2:24; 3:12-13; 5:18-20). And whatever we have in front of us needs to absorb our full attention… our total commitment (Ecclesiastes 9:10).



The worst thing in the world is to stop working… to either become the entitled person or the victim… It doesn’t matter whether we are paid…we need to accept God’s unique assignment for each of us.