The Duty of Man

Each one of us is alone. No one can know your thoughts, unless you voice them. No one can experience your feelings as you experience them. The connection to others is based on the shared understanding of words, not the actual sharing of the feelings. And what is there to do when there is no other to share even the small words we give each other? What is there to do when friends are gone, when family dies? Who is left to understand, and more importantly, what else is there left to do with life?

In Ecclesiastes is the experience of a man who looked for meaning in life. He experimented with pleasure, drunkenness and sex. He accumulated knowledge, wealth and power. He built great structures that amazed all who beheld them. And yet, he was unsatisfied. Everything that he tried, no matter how great or pleasurable, became stale. It was only when he turned his devotion fully to God, and to doing the will of God, that he found an activity that satisfied, and did not become stale.

Don’t wait till the end of your life to do God’s will. Don’t wait till friends and family are gone before experiencing the closeness of God. Don’t be deceived by the busyness of your life into thinking you are fulfilled. Only through nearness to God and the doing of His will does life have meaning.


Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure in them"…Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.