For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool! 17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1 / King Solomon
YOU have to watch this!
Haven't you ever wondered why so many beautiful, incredibly talented, gifted and fabulously rich people simply cannot find happiness, leave a chain of broken dreams and lives, with some even committing suicide? In one of the most brutally honest, insightful and ENCOURAGING Christian testimonies you will probably ever hear, this previously cynical atheist and bitter comedian had become a terrible drunk and a failure as a husband and father, was on the brink of divorce, and yet, had nonetheless correctly realized that NONE of the things he and and others across the world are chasing has any real meaning, as they ultimately cannot remotely make one truly at peace or joyful. Nor will such things last beyond this life! His life a wreck, filled with regrets, and desperate for personal change, healing - and ultimately, for answers to those big, universal questions about life, about God, purpose, and meaning, he began his desperate quest. And precisely at the time his searching had yielded only more cynicism about the universal pointlessness of his life and the world's striving after power, sex, materialism, etc, etc, and just as he could see no point of continuing, God put someone in his life that began to influence and open his eyes about Jesus.
And the comedian's testimony and insights echo precisely the truths that King Solomon, the wealthiest man of his time wrote, over 3,000 years ago: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=ESV
And American music icon, Johnny Cash, nearing the end of his life of so many successes, failures - and accumulated wisdom - echoes all of the above in this amazing song and video he recorded ("Hurt"). While he didn't write it, he chose to record it because the song perfectly summed up his own insights and difficult journey through life, as well as the wisdom he gleaned through it all. It was posted on YouTube 18 years after his death, and since it has racked up some 65 million views, with many thousands of comments testifying to the power its truth-telling and emotional impact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI