Labor Day
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We have a weird relationship to work. God worked and created us to work before sin.
Labor, work, is profitable
23 In all labor there is profit,
But idle chatter leads only to poverty.
But what is labor?
effort.
Labor is its own reward
10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
And this was my reward from all my labor.
Don’t overthink it.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled;
And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.
This from the same person who said there was profit in all labor. what happened? he started to overthink it. And he kept overthinking it.
17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
If you keep looking at the bigger and then bigger picture, truly nothing matters.
18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Legacy doesn’t matter
What does all of our labor really produce?
22 For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Solomon ends up where he began: work is its own reward.
24 Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
Everything we work for is ultimately consumable or consumed. Deriving simple pleasure from doing work and consuming its rewards