All is Vanity
“ Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
(Ecclesiastes 1:2)
I enjoy reading Chuck Colson's Breakpoint commentaries (you can check them out here). I believe he has great insight and perspective on the cultural issues of today. His commentary, today, speaks about the emptiness of life and he uses a recent Woody Allen interview to reinforce his point. Here's a sample.
...as Allen reveals—and as a careful look at his films will bear out—he does this not to celebrate life, but apparently to divert himself from its emptiness and despair. "It's just an awful thing," he says, "and in that context you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?" At best, all Allen has ever found is a temporary answer: You go on long enough to get the current project finished, and then you go on to the next one. But at bottom, there's no significance to any of it.As Allen confesses, movies were only a "means" for him to live the kind of lifestyle he wanted, but now that he has it, he has to keep making movies to distract himself from it. Like the writer of Ecclesiastes, who "withheld not [his] heart from any joy," Woody Allen apparently has concluded that "all is vanity.
***Editorial Note: Frequent visitors to this blog will notice I tend to write a lot about famous folks and their foibles. I do this to show that for one, they are human just like the rest of us average joes out here and two, that a life of fame and fortune, without God, ain't what it's cracked up to be.
My heart goes out, not just to Woody Allen, but any human soul that feels this way. Living life in despair and without any hope. What a sad and terrible way to live! But this is the true state of being of those who are lost and without Christ in this world. Oh, they may smile outwardly, but inwardly they are crying out for help. They try anything to mask this pain. Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, sex, food, work, pornography, cutting, suicide (put your own example here).
Mr. Colson continues:
... many have more in common with him than they would like to think. How many of us live our lives like this, trying to give the heart what it wants, dashing from one distraction to the next, even if we pay lip service to some sort of deeper meaning in life? Have we forgotten that we can find meaning in life only by laying down our lives for the Truth? That Jesus was serious when He said “whoever loses his life for my sake will find it”?
So true.
You know, God loves you and cares about you so much. And He freely provided the only real relief for this pain, His Son, Jesus Christ. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life". That's life, ladies and gentlemen, in it's real and truest sense. Life filled with purpose and meaning, joy and happiness.
If you haven't accepted this gift of life from God, I'd like to offer you an opportunity to do so now. Click on the side bar link under "Need Salvation?" Allow God to fill all the emptiness in you life today.
Today's Scriptures References: Book of Ecclesiastes & John 3:16
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Be blessed!
Bro. Ron
