This earthly life cannot possibly satisfy a being like man if it be lived apart from God.

Apart from God, wisdom leads to disappointment and lands us at death in the sublime despair of philosophy.

 Apart from God, wealth and all that it can command yields much less satisfaction than intellectual achievement, since it is further removed from the higher and imperishable nature of man.

 Apart from God, Nature, regarded as matter interpenetrated by force, presents nothing on which man's inmost being can rest. Here we have only cycles of laws repeating themselves through the ages with a momentum which mocks our intellects.

 Vanity, emptiness, and disappointment are traced on Nature, on wealth and thought. As a matter of fact man does not find in either real satisfaction.

Human effort is only vanity when it is pursued without reference to God. Man's capacities are given to lead him to God, and all that leads to Him, so far from being vanity, is lasting and substantial. The man who is living for another world is not less alive to his duties here, His heart has followed his treasure; his citizenship is already in heaven; he looks at "the things which are not seen": he lives as "a stranger and pilgrim": he is but a soldier on campaign duty. All that comes in his way is precious, as enabling him to conquer the enemy and to reach his home.

Jesus of course confirms when he said: The thief cometh not but to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10

True folks. Satan who is the father of lies steals our joy, filling us with futile efforts and vague meaningless life . Let us put aside our vague wandering of things of this world and set our eyes on the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.