Toil is Meaningless.

I think I've realized what it means to be a Christian.
.....to grow stronger everyday in my walk with the Lord.
You're thinking, "Duh, Sarah. That's an easy one."
Well...is it really??

I opened to Ecclesiastes. I love all the wisdom and poetic books of the Bible! Anyway, I decide that I was going to read Ecc. today. "Everything is meaningless", such sarcasm, yet humor. My kind of book. :)

Ecclesiastes 2: Toil is Meaningless

Storytime..
Last night at work the wind was gusting and it was raining hard. Well, the glass in front of the Walgreens emblem blew in and glass broke everywhere. We didn't even close the store!! So I run and get 15 carts and a guy I work with helps me flip them over and put yellow rope around them so customers wouldn't walk under the glass fixture. People still tried!!! I question customer service everyday of my life. People..........love/hate relationships....... GAH.

Anyway, moral of the story: Toil is Meaningless. Just like Ecclesiastes says.
It's meaningless for me to go to work everyday hating it. Dreading it. And it's meaningless to NOT work hard. God put me there for a reason. Being light in the darkness isn't exactly easy...nor is it supposed to be.

"A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work." -Ecc. 2:24

Sarah.........eat, drink, and enjoy life. Enjoy having a job. Many don't.

"This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?" -verse 25

So true.

I MUST find satisfaction in my job. I have to find a way to stop hating it, and letting it cause my life misery.

"To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth over to the one who pleases God."

"This too is meaningless and chasing after the wind." - Ecc. 2:26

I guess....I just don't want to waste my time. Sometimes I feel like that's what I'm doing at Walgreens. Wasting my time for little money that barely helps me survive. Being unappreciated there, and being annoyed by customers everyday....

Toil is Meaningless.
But at this point in my life, the opening line of Ecclesiastes fits perfectly, "So, I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me."

Yep. Life isn't always peaches and cream, but God is still God, nonetheless.

Toil is Meaningless....