The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 5 July 2025 — Every Man Will Leave His Possessions
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TOPIC: Every Man Will Leave His Possessions
READ: Ecclesiastes 2:18-26 (NKJV)
- Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
- And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also [is] vanity.
- Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.
- For there is a man whose labor [is] with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.
- For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
- For all his days [are] sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
- Nothing [is] better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
- For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
- For [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who [is] good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to [him who is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and grasping for the wind.
THE MESSAGE:
The life of Solomon is full of various lessons of life. In our passage today, we are made to see that death is unavoidable. Every man will die some day and when this happens, whatever has been gathered with much labour and pain under the sun will be transferred to another who did not know how the wealth came about.
King Solomon said “And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Yet shall he have rule over all my labour in which I have laboured and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity” (v.19).
Beloved, whether it is convenient or not, all of us will die and leave all we have gathered either righteously or otherwise to those we are not sure how they will manage it. It is important to note that it is useless to engage in evil in the name of making it at all cost.
There is no doubt that God blesses his children. As you go about your daily tasks, note that God watches how you make your money. Remember, “as the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not, so he that gets riches and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool” (Jer. 17:11). Never forget that every man will leave his possessions someday to someone else.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, grant me grace to live on your grace and not on my possessions.
