Stay until the end… if you’re giving your life to work but not enjoying it, this will make you think.
This is what Ecclesiastes 2:26 says:
“For the person who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; 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.”
This was written by Solomon… and he didn’t say it as a theory, he said it from experience. He had everything, and still saw something that keeps happening today.
There are men who work themselves to the bone their whole lives.
They work nonstop, sacrifice time with their family and even with themselves… thinking that one day they’ll enjoy what they’re building.
But that “one day” often never comes.
Fatigue comes, sickness comes, distance grows in the family…
or even death can come before you get the chance to enjoy it,
And the hardest part…
is that many times everything you worked so hard for ends up in someone else’s hands.
Sometimes yes, in the hands of your children… but other times not.
Sometimes in the hands of people who don’t even value what it cost.
Sometimes in the hands of someone who comes later… and enjoys what you never had time to live.
And that’s where life feels unfair.
But Solomon is not saying “don’t work.”
He’s saying something deeper: if your life is only about accumulating… you’re going to miss what truly matters.
Because God doesn’t just want to give you things…
He wants to give you wisdom to live, and joy to enjoy what you already have.
That changes everything.
One person may have less… but live in peace, enjoy a meal, a conversation, a normal day… without that constant anxiety of “I need more.”
And another may have a lot… but live empty, running, accumulating… without enjoying anything.
That, the Bible says, is “a chasing after the wind.”
It’s that inner exhaustion you can’t see, but you feel every day.
Let me leave you with this honest question:
Are you building a life you can actually live… or just setting everything up for someone else to enjoy?
Because in the end… it’s not the one who gathers the most who wins.
It’s the one who actually learned how to live.
I invite you to join me in this prayer…
Lord, open my eyes. Teach me not to waste my life on things I can’t take with me. Give me wisdom to live with purpose, to enjoy what You give me today, and not leave what matters most for later. Let my life not be just work… but also peace, meaning, and fullness in You. In the name of Jesus, amen.
At Somos Cristianos, we connect hearts with Christ.
