Wisdom Over Wealth: Idolizing Status

“Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.” — Ecclesiastes 4:4 Ecclesiastes shows us how even good work can go wrong when driven by envy. What starts as diligence can quickly become a pursuit of status. Today, we’ll look at how chasing approval leaves us empty—and how God invites us into something much greater.