At the end of life, no one wants to visit the office one more time.
Ecclesiastes 1:2-9
“Wash. Rinse. Repeat.”
Those are the instructions on the back of a shampoo bottle.
I’ve often wondered if those instructions are really necessary to get your hair clean or is it there just to sell more shampoo?
Probably both…
“Wash. Rinse. Repeat.” is also a popular idiom in our culture (referred to as the “shampoo algorithm“) that points out the folly of doing the same thing over and over while hoping for a different outcome.
As a computer geek, I like that description a lot. It gives the whole monotonous process a little more structure, if not some pizzazz…
Like that matters…
Most of us… well, all of us, live life that way – all too often.
You might say that we live life “going through the motions” – which is not the way God intended.
Have you ever desired to live life with purpose?
Do you (we) even know what that means?
It’s sad to say that we all experience those feelings. Without a purpose, we treat life as drudgery rather than the precious gift that it is.
Today’s Tiny Words. Big Life. Bible verse comes from King Solomon – the richest and wisest man to ever live.
Normally, most of us would feel that he, more than anyone else, would have the key to living a fulfilled life. He had it all. There was nothing he longed for that he couldn’t have.
Yet, in the end, he knew he had nothing. He realized that no amount of money or things could free him from the clutches of the “shampoo algorithm“.
The Tiny Words. Big Life. takeaway is this: Pray to please God, rather than yourself, in all you do. Pray to be satisfied with things that God wants for you, rather than things you desire.
And the next time you’re feeling like your hair needs a good washing, try using the “Jesus algorithm“…
“Wash. Rinse. Done!”
Ecclesiastes 1:2-9
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil 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.
Wash Rinse Done! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🥰❤️