The Profit of Our Labor

The Profit of Our Labor

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.

Life is hard work. We toil and we toil to scratch out a living on this Earth, but Solomon, one of the wisest men in the Bible, once asked a good question about that.

He said,” What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? (Ecclesiastes 3:9)

What’s the profit of our labors? Solomon goes on to say he saw all the work God gives us to do, and he also saw that in God’s time He makes all things beautiful. Solomon makes the point that our labors will always be unprofitable if human outcomes are the chief goal. Our labor must have a higher purpose than that. If we labor for human satisfaction our work is a work of futility, but if we labor with eternity in mind then the glory of God becomes the goal, and our labor becomes profitable.

The major theme for the book of Ecclesiastes is that satisfaction can only be found in God. Yet, people don’t understand the work God is doing. If we’ll just accept that everything is a gift from God, then we will find satisfaction in our labor. We can rejoice; we can do good; we can eat and drink and enjoy the good of our labor because we know the work we’ve been given to do is a gift from God.

Have a God Filled Week,
Brother Donnie