Solomon was overwhelmed with being king of Israel, and the Lord wanted to get him started off on the right foot. The Lord asked Solomon, “What shall I give you?” (1 Kgs. 3:5). The king simply requested “a wise and understanding heart” (3:9, 12), and that is exactly what the all-powerful, all-wise, all-loving God gave to him. Wisdom!
Near the end of his days, the man who possessed a heavenly dose of wisdom looked at life, and he concluded, “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind” (Ecc. 1:14). Heavenly wisdom caused him to investigate ALL the works done under the sun—to look at everything done in life and everything supposedly meaningful in life. After investigating them ALL, he surmised, “ALL is vanity and grasping for the wind.”
When will we learn from Solomon? When will we stop grasping after the meaningless things of this world? When will we truly (not superficially!) realize that our “ALL” is to “fear God and keep His commandments” (12:13)? That’s ALL that matters!