It Can Never Satisfy

At one time or another probably all of us have felt the desire for 'just a little bit more.' The writer of Ecclesiastes has this to say about that desire: 'He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity' (Ecclesiastes 5:10).

In other words, money and wealth and stuff simply fail to deliver. We think it will, so we pursue it. We get it, and are still unsatisfied, so pursue it some more: 'just a little bit more.' But these things can never fill the aching void of the human heart. As Derek Kidner writes, 'If anything is worse than the addiction money brings, it is the emptiness it leaves. Man, with eternity in his heart, needs better nourishment than this.' [Derek Kidner, Ecclesiastes (Leicester: IVP, 1976), 56].

We have to find another treasure, one that will satisfy ultimately. And that treasure is Christ.   

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