Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

This sums up life in its totality.

I will explain.

God gave Adam a job and it didn’t make him happy.

God gave Adam Eve to be happy. Adam didn’t know how to handle being happy.

Mankind had to be shown how love acts before we could be truly happy.

Selfish people end up being alone.

“I will show you a still more excellent way.” What followed was the love chapter.

1 Corinthians 13

Genesis 1 English Standard Version

The Creation of the World

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 

Up until the time that Moses was told what to write by God, face to face, Israel had a long standing oral tradition that began with Abraham. All Abrahm could share with his generation was based on his instructions and experiences. For them it was enough.

Israel was freed from slavery to Egypt and Israel experienced some of the power of God.

Because Moses was sent to be Israel’s deliverer, it was easier for them to believe that the words given in those first five books were true because they had witnessed the power of God.

All but Caleb and Joshua died in the wilderness and the next generation only had the written word and a few things they saw for themselves.

Now thousand of years removed from a first hand witness to the power of God we stand alone as witnesses for what God has done for us and through us to a generation that does not know the power of God like those of the Exodus.

Who is to believe our report?

I must remember my Lord’s instruction. Spread the gospel everywhere.

We are not instructed to take soil samples.

If you do not know what that means, you should read Matthew 13:1-23.