Can't Get No Satisfaction?

In June, 1965, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" was released to the world by The Rolling Stones. It is considered by some to be one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded. Its lyrics refer to sexual frustration and commercialism.

Although some of the lyrics are a little too much for my mind, Mick Jagger makes a similar point as did Solomon in Ecclesiastes when Solomon writes that everything is meaningless--including wisdom, pleasures, toil, advancement, and riches.

Meaningless! Meaningless!

says the Teacher.

Utterly meaningless!

Everything is meaningless!

   Ecclesiastes 1..

Solomon seemingly had everything: wealth, riches, wisdom, and, yet, he felt he had nothing. It was all meaningless to him. It seems that we, too, are searching, searching, searching for love, joy, wealth, and/or some kind of validity for what we do on a day to day basis as life wearily repeats itself. Why? The true meaning of life has been hidden from us when God is not a part of our lives.

For those in Christ, a day should never be same-old, same-old.

...but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

  Isaiah 40: 31

 

... and Revelations 21:5: He who is seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!"

 

Solomon, considered to be one of the wisest men ever, ends his lamenting with, Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
 

Can't get no satisfaction? Try God.