Living With the End in Sight

One of the greatest fallacies of our day is short-term thinking. Our culture has cultivated and indoctrinated the masses of society to focus their happiness on their current circumstances. The questions we have been tutored to ask are: What makes me happy? What identity would make me happy?”What relationships make me happy? 

When people struggle to find satisfaction in their current state, circumstance, or relationships, they just go look somewhere else. When a person isn’t happy, it must be the fault of their circumstances or other people, never the result of their own choices. 

The Ancient Preacher of Ecclesiastes 11 warns, Consider your days, especially when you are young. Live with the end of your days in sight. 

   “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes.”  (Eccles. 11:9)

Those who live for the moment with short-term thinking will find their hearts vexed as their youth fades and the days of older age set in.