Jesus frees us to get over the sun

kinda random but i was thinking about ecclesiastes today … and pondering on its message for me (us) today (which doesn’t make sense cuz I didn’t read it today haha) … and i think what i concluded in the end was that the essence of the book was calling us to take our frustrations, our efforts, our weariness, our fatigue, our boredom at the habitual cycles of life, our questions of “is this all there is?”, and look beyond what’s under the sun. 

i’m coming off kinda a bleh monday and i think the message that confronted me was that i was looking for all kinds of things, empty, vain, silly things under the sun to fill and satisfy what only “our Creator” could (12:1). i felt myself kinda drifting from God since I woke today by just numbing my mind with hours of youtube (i still can’t recall all that i spent my time on) and mayb it took me a whole day to realize what I was doing. 

I uno, just thot i’d share … maybe our frustrations are meant to have us look above, and as shane and shane says in one of their songs (and Jesus makes possible), “get over the sun.”