Ecclesiastes 2:
Enjoy life, that is good.
But even so, Solomon who has everything finds pleasure meaningless.
3 I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
"My heart still guiding me with wisdom".
Enjoy the pleasures of the world and start losing your soul, because you get carried away. Look at what Solomon did - his heart still guiding him with wisdom.
v9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
In fact, he tolied for building up his pleasures, but he kept his heart from pleasure, and instead the pleasure comes from the toil. v10 for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
Seeking pleasure is meaningless and it can be dangerous, unless the constraint of the heart to remain right in God. Solomon don't take pleasure from the things of the world, but from the toil he made to create these pleasures, because he knew that pleasure don't last and are meaningless to pursue.
24 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment [2] in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, 25 for apart from him [3] who can eat or who can have enjoyment?
The answer, pleasures comes from working and the work is a blessings from God. With God, enjoy the work He has blessed you and take pleasure from it
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