Eternal Establishment of Elation

For the first time in my life, reading Ecclesiastes has not been an exercise of fruitless futility. While standing still, scrutinzing the sweeping simplification of meaninglessness and ineffectual life of a man, striking is the soberness and nonexistent is the man, or woman, whose life remains a topic of profound inspiration and conversation for all of humanity for all of time. Yet remains one, the possible exception of Jesus Christ. Our time line was affected by his life, and, it seems that only his life has the possibility of giving us some hope for something more than just getting through this life to it's end.

No matter how you believe, the cycle of life has been circling for thousands of years or millions. There have been hundreds of billions of people who have come and gone and when you examine the big picture, have we escaped the depravity of the human condition? Does not yet remain senseless extinguishing of lives by others, illnesses consuming, pain and suffering remaining, and joy fleeting with catastrophic calamities still abounding in our world? Have we removed all the barbarous and 'uncivilized' acts of human nature from our midst? Is the world truly improving, or does it continue impoverished with the nature of the evil mutating into some different mask of evil?

At the beginning of chapter 5 and the end of chapter 12 of Ecclesiastes, stands the only hope for the ails of aging, the plight of personal persecution, the response to the ravages of the world we walk within. For, just as the book honestly portrays the bane and uneventfulness of my life among the masses, it does point to the only qualities of my life that will have eternal benefits; if I can uncover and communicate the complete hope, unveiling to others the dissipation of debauchery and disillusionment by destruction of dishonesty, dissatisfying decadence and depravity. If I can clearly share the kingdom of God, eternally existing, exposing it in such manner so we experience it together; it's riches, reserves and resources filling our lives today as part of the eternal establishment of elation, the ending of evil within each of us; then maybe, just maybe my life will count for the cause of Christ, participating in His glory empty of the meaninglessness of me.