The human body comprises: Water, Carbon, Amino acids, Iron, Calcium and Salts as the main ingredients. When you die, your body has no more value and is usually disposed of; by laying it in a coffin that is deposited into a six-foot hole in the ground. Some may choose to cremate the remains of a loved one and store the ashes in a bottle or jar. There are a few that end up as cadavers in a museum or laboratory for scientific purposes. If you are a king, you just might be mummified and placed in a pyramid or shrine. The only exception is; to be devoured by the beasts of the earth, the fish of the sea or the fowls of the air.

One thing is common in all these cases and that is: the remains somehow return to the earth (one way or the other). It does not matter what status or position you hold in life, sooner or later we all have to die.

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return (Genesis 3:19).”

King Solomon the richest of all kings of Israel and also one of the wisest men (if not the wisest, besides Jesus Christ) to have ever lived concluded that all was vanity of vanity.

Many measure their personal worth by their achievements. This covers a wide spectrum including: education (scholarly accomplishments), profession, money, possessions, social status, fame, sport, art and many more. That is a false ideology and will always inevitably lead to disillusionment and depression.

“Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth (Luke 12:15).”

All those who build their hopes and lives on the temporal and fleeting, may find satisfaction for a season, but will ultimately learn the lesson of their fathers before them. Nothing fulfils the inner cravings of the soul apart from the Almighty.

“The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour, which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever. I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge (Ecclesiastes 1:1-4,16).”