Enjoyment
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 2: 24-26
I was having a conversation this week with an individual about finding enjoyment, which got me thinking about how much we find enjoyment in our lives compared to finding issues with people or things. It is so easy to find things wrong in this world, because we are bombarded with the enemy trying to make us feel like we aren't enough, or don't know what we are doing with our life. Finding the smallest thing in God's creation to catch enjoyment might be a good start to get ourselves on the path of finding full gratification. Why I start with the smallest thing to find enjoyment in is because if God had the thoughtfulness to create something so small and relatively insignificant to most for us to enjoy. I often think of everything He has done to provide us happiness. God loves us and wants us to find enjoyment in his creation, and He also wants us to communicate our needs to him. I challenge each of you to find ways to enjoy God and His creation, and if you are having trouble, ask Him to encourage and guide you to that enjoyment.
Have a great weekend.
Matt
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