I wonder how often that question has been in your mind, and how often you have said, "I'm fed up, and there is nothing worth living for." Yes, it sometimes seems that the greatest problem with life is life itself!
Have you heard of Solomon, who tried everything that life appeared to offer? He had plenty of money, so he was able to indulge himself in every pleasure and luxury. He says he gave himself to wine, he got himself servants and maidens, and he got himself men singers and women singers; wine, women and song! Indeed, he frankly declared that whatsoever his eyes desired, he kept nothing from them, and he withheld his heart from no pleasure.
Here is a man who lived a life of unhindered license. He just let himself go, and the result of it all was that he declared, "Behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no profit under the sun." He simply hated life. Do you wonder why? Well, for one reason, he found that he couldn't escape death. As it happened to the fool, so it happened to him. He just couldn't go on indefinitely enjoying the things he possessed. Death stared him in the face. Again, in spite of all his indulgence, there was a sense of frustration. All that sounds so familiar doesn't it?
How few really happy people there are today! Why is it so? I will tell you why. Man is made for God and for eternity, not only for a few years down here. That which belongs to eternity cannot find satisfaction in things which are merely temporal. What proof is there of this? Just this--the very failure of man to get satisfaction from anything he tries in the world. Though he drains to the last drop the cup of the world's pleasure, even then he finds himself thirsty.
The Bible tells us that man's life does not consist of the things he possesses. The Lord Jesus Christ says, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Isn't it obvious that a horse cannot live in the sea? Land is his natural element. A bird's element is the air, and the fish must have water. Even so, man is made for God. Heaven and eternity are your natural elements, and every attempt you make to satisfy yourself apart from them means that you are trying to satisfy only a part of yourself--the sinful nature in you.
If we are to be satisfied, it must be done spiritually. Whether you have realized it or not, the longing in your heart which you cannot satisfy with earthly things is a yearning for God. There is no life worth living apart from Him, simply because life without Him is a living death. The Lord Jesus tasted death on the Cross to rescue you from sin and failure, and to obtain for you pardon from your guilty life of sin against Him.
"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).
"If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Romans 10:9).
"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life" (1 John 5:12).
Jesus Christ is alive, and will live in you by the Holy Spirit if you confess your sins to Him and trust Him as your Saviour. You will no longer have an emptiness, a desire, a longing, but you will have life--life to the full. That is the life which God offers to you, and He offers it to you only in the Lord Jesus Christ. To neglect that salvation is to choose an eternity of torment apart from God in the blackness of darkness forever, with no hope of ever meeting the longing of your soul.
