Message Text: Ecclesiastes 5:8-20
Introduction
What do you want out of life? What is your aim in life? Money, fame, promotions, status, more things? The sobering reality is even after attaining these things, many people are still not satisfied or fulfilled. What is it that people really desire or want out of life? A marketing research team summarized the things people want out of life along with the motivating factor behind it:
*1. High paying job. Human Motivation - to make us feel successful and valuable and essential to our companies or business.
2. Save money, spend less. Human Motivation - to secure the future and allow for the unexpected expenses of life.
3. Use time more wisely. Human Motivation - to enjoy life more by not working as much. So if we can save time at work, theoretically, we can get things done faster and go home sooner.
4. Look better. Human Motivation - to feel more attractive to other people. We like for others to like our looks.
5. Learn new things. Human Motivation - to be more empowered by what we know and make better decisions in light of this knowledge.
6. Live longer. Human Motivation – the worldviews of the world make us too afraid to die because they give no certainty as to what follows this life.
7. More comfortable. Human Motivation – we want to enjoy a life that is as pain-free and comfortable as possible.
8. Want to be loved. Human Motivation – we do not want to be alone in this life. It relieves us from criticisms if we have someone.
9. Popular. Human Motivation - affirmation and praise from others makes us feel important and cool to be with.
10. Pleasure. Human Motivation - do all the things I want to do and feel fulfilled.
*Maybe you’re still thinking: “I still don’t know what I want out of life?”*Now at the end of the message, we’re going to apply the wisdom of this passage and shape this list into a better list, a better approach for how to live our lives.*
