Are you enjoying yourself?
[Ecclesiastes 6:3, 6]
Are you enjoying eating and drinking? Are you enjoying seeing good in all your labor? The Bible Ecclesiastes 3:13 says, ‘Moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor--it is the gift of God.’ The Bible says, “There is nothing better for a man to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good” (2:24, cf. 8:15). And the Bible says that it is good and fitting (5:18). Therefore, we should enjoy it when we can enjoy this gift God has given us. The reason is that we will not be able to eat or drink even if we want to. And the time will surely come when we cannot work even though we want to.
When we look at Ecclesiastes 6:3 and 6, we see a very unhappy person. The unfortunate man (v. 1) received God's wealth, riches, and honor out of all his wishes (v.2). Nevertheless, he is not satisfied with it (5:10). And he cannot sleep because he worries about his many possessions (v. 12). The very serious problem is that he hoards his wealth even to the point of harming himself (v. 13). Then there is nothing to pass on to his children, because he loses all his wealth due to some misfortune (v. 14). Therefore, all his days he eats in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger (v. 17). “This too is a grievous evil“(v. 16). Man is born naked at the time of his birth, and no matter how hard he may be, he will not have anything to take away from this world (v. 15). Man is forced to leave this world as it is, and why is he doing such a futile effort as to catch a wind that can not be caught (v. 16)? It is a grievous evil. The great grievous evil is that he has received wealth, riches, and honor from God without lack of all wishes, but that God does not allow him to enjoy it, so that others will enjoy it (6:2). How meaningless and sorrowful it is (v. 2). If he dies without enjoying God’s given blessings even though he has given birth to one hundred children and lived a thousand years in this land (v. 3).
It “is good and proper for a man to eat and drink and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him” (5:18). If God gives us wealth and riches to enjoy it, and to bless us to enjoy our labors, it is God's gift (v. 19). If we are pleased with the gift of God because God has filled our hearts with joy, we will not seriously think that life is short (v. 20). God already gave us all spiritual blessings in heaven in Christ (Eph. 1: 3). May God fill our hearts with joy as we enjoy all the heavenly spiritual blessings.