“I hated life.” These words did not fall from the lips of a depressed, ignorant pauper who had no station in life, but rather from a king to whom God had given “largeness of heart,” as well as making him the wisest and wealthiest man in all the earth.
The things of this world bring no permanent satisfaction if God is not in them. Like sugar is to tea, so God makes our material cups sweet to the taste. When we seek first the things above the sun, we’ll enjoy the things that are under the sun. As Peter says, it is then that we can “love life.”
To live only for the “meat that perishes” will never bring perpetual happiness to the soul. Those who live only for the things of this world are constantly discarding them as children do who no longer find satisfaction from their toys. It is Heaven’s promises, not earth’s pleasures that give spice to life.
The blessings of earth become burdens when God is not in them.
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