FaithSolomon and the word ‘enough’
He had almost everything
The biblical account describes Solomon with extraordinary wealth, power, and 700 wives and 300 concubines. Still, abundance did not make desire feel finished.
FaithFaithSolomon and the word ‘enough’
More could not become enough
Pleasure kept making the same promise: one more thing will settle you. Solomon had the means to test that promise farther than most people ever could.
FaithSolomon and the word ‘enough’
His conclusion was plain
He wrote that it was “all vanity and a striving after wind.” What he could reach could not give him the lasting peace he expected from it.
FaithSolomon and the word ‘enough’
The useful question
When the thought says “just a taste,” ask what Solomon’s life asks: if more were the answer, would it not have worked by now? You can stop chasing the wind today.
Keep the line that helps. Leave the rest.