Some People Feel Peace Is Found In

1. Pleasure – having a good time
2. Popularity – having many friends
3. Prestige – having acceptability with people
4. Power – having control over people
5. Position – having made it to the top
6. Philanthropy – having done benevolent acts
7. Possessions – having money and prosperity

All these pursuits seem to bring peace, yet we know people who have these things and still have no peace. A Jewish man by the name of Solomon, who had all these things, said, “Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity (futility) and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun” (Eccl. 2:11).

David M. Levy is a Bible teacher, author, former pastor, and the retired director of International Ministries for The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry.