Life Under the Sun

Houston's First Baptist Church - Discover biblical messages to encourage your daily walk with God.

Most of us have felt that nagging sense that something is missing, no matter how much we achieve or accumulate. The book of Ecclesiastes confronts that feeling directly, describing life as hevel, a Hebrew word meaning breath or vapor. Solomon, one of the wisest and wealthiest men who ever lived, observed that life is a vapor, repetitive, unsatisfying, and ultimately uncontrollable. No amount of legacy, novelty, pleasure, or wisdom can produce the lasting gain we are searching for. But this hone…