Yes, indeed—and, in reality, it’s one that demands an answer if our lives here are to have any meaning and purpose here on earth. Why is that? Simply because if we’re seeking those things which can’t satisfy that deep, inner longing within us, then it follows that we’ll never find what we’re looking for.
There’s no doubt King Solomon, David’s son, was incredibly blessed by God. When God asked him what he desired from Him, Solomon replied “Give, therefore, Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your People”
(I Kings 3:9);
in other words, he asked God for wisdom.
And, that’s exactly what God gave him—along with fame and fortune
(vv.10-13).
But, soon, those became his liability: because he strayed from God and his 1,000 pagan wives and concubines