Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like to achieve the highest level of every personal goal? What is waiting for us at the end of that road, to have every whim and desire fulfilled in a perfect way? There is an interesting commentary in the bible in Ecclesiastes by a guy named Solomon. Solomon was King David’s son and according to the bible was the richest and wisest man to ever live. At one point in his life he decided that he was going to allow himself to fulfill every desire that came to his mind, he would withhold nothing from himself. Because of his money, power and incredible wisdom he would be able to reach amazingly high in this personal endeavor. After his quest came to an end he basically said it all came to nothing. In other words there is really nothing at the end of that road, no satisfaction, no fulfillment, and no utopia. One author I’ve been reading recently asks the inevitable question: if nothing here in this life, in this world, can truly bring me to a place of contentment, then I must have been created for another place, another purpose. There must be more to our reality than this life. For me, that mentality follows because the designer of this existence is obviously amazing beyond what we can fathom. For that reason alone, there has to be more than the predominate darkness and pain we have in this world, which can be also grand and beautiful at times.
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