Meaningless !

The past two days I have found myself completely caught up in the Lakers saga. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to www.am570radio.com or www.kb24.com or ESPN or any of the sports websites. On the way home from work tonight, I had to turn the radio off and get re-focused. This is so not me to be obsessing over silly things like Kobe Bryant and the feud the Lakers organization is. I'm not a star gazer of any sort anymore, never mind that fact that I never cared for Kobe,though my opinion is rapidly changing of him for the better. So, I was thrown off by this attraction to what is going on. There is a lot of hurt in Kobe. I am not sure I really care who is to blame in this story, whether the Buss family literally lied to Kobe just to get him to re-sign or if Kobe is just frustrated right now.

But what I do see is without Christ, life and everything in it is meaningless. I realize that this is not the most thought-provoking post I have done, but thought it might be nice to post Essclesiastes chapter 1... because Kobe is probably as rich as you can get in the world of sports short of being an owner or part owner of a team, and I think he is just beginning to see that this is all meaningless. At least, I kind of gathered that from the two interviews he has done in the past two days.

Ecclesiastes 1

1 The words of the Teacher, [a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
11 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men!
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
15 What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I thought to myself, "Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge."
17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.