We Can Do Nothing Without God

I've been pondering today out of (Ecclesiastes 2:22-26) Whenever we fall back into trying to do things on our own we must realize that we can do nothing without God. If we don't immediately begin to give it all to God, it spreads and slowly paralyzes the great adventure God has planned for our life. Or if we get back into the habit of filling our mind with just stuff, like the kind of entertainment that is not good for our soul, we will begin to feel the loss of peace God means for us to experience in His presence. God's presence is our only source of absolute peace. The Bible here in this passage of Scripture gives to us the end game in which the story of our lives will be tragic when we choose to live without a strong sense of His presence in our lives. We will always be anxiously gathering more of what we can't keep and anxiously guarding what will someday belong to someone else while we're throwing out, with the garbage all the golden opportunities that God provides in His presence. Just think saints, God offers a life of joy, wisdom, strength, peace, and love from the blessings of His generous presence. But it's when we depart from His presence that we have to backtrack and see where we departed. Did I neglect His Word? Is there a behavior I've engaged in that has led me back into the ghetto of sin? O how it's the experience of God's sweet presence that shows us the contrast between a meaningless life and a meaningful life! May we never want to live in anything less than the best God has promised for us. God's presence is the only cure for anxiety because He is never anxious.