Read it in view of the end

Ecclesiastes 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes is a book
You must read knowing it’s end
Solomon points to the life lost
Without God as your Lord and friend.

The wisest man wrote
Of the vanity of our pursuits
Of how we miss the pleasure
When desires are misplaced at the roots.

He covers all the mistakes
He spoke from experience then
He had a great gift from God
After that he turned to sin.

He had everything he wished
But he always wanted more
He was never content or happy
It almost seemed his life was a bore.

His greatest gift was wisdom
It lead him down many ways
His wisdom lead to sinful pursuits
He ran from God many days.

He carried the burden of wisdom
He understood it all his life
He saw his sin and denied it
He was never content with one wife.

He understood the heavenlies
He grasped a depth to man-kind
He wrote books of wisdom for us
He shared the burden of the wise mind.

No pastor to this day
No scholar none the same
Will lighten the load of wisdom
Will bear the weight of sin’s shame.

When God grants anyone understanding
When God opens your mind to see
A burden may be placed on your heart
A weight of wisdom it will be.

You will carry the weight with you
You will bear others lacks too
You will want others to understand
You will want God to help you.

Your wisdom will bring grief
Your wisdom will bring strain
But with the wisdom brings boldness
To share it you will proclaim.

It comes from a heart of love
It comes from Him within
It comes from the burden of wisdom
To preach to turn from sin.

The entire book Solomon wrote
Was a testimony to God with his time
A written account of a person’s gift
Who like me put it in a rhyme.

Solomon closed the book with an account
Of living your life for God complete
Of how we all must give an answer
On that day we bow at his feet.