Jesus said that he came into the world “to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate’s response, “What is truth?” is thought provoking. Jesus had just finished explaining the relationship between God, himself and us in a prayer before leaving for the garden of Gethsemane.
Jesus glorified God on earth by doing the work given him from God. He showed God’s name to people, he kept and guarded his disciples, giving them God’s word. As a result, Jesus’ disciples were “not of the world”, loved by God in the same way that God loved Jesus. It was Jesus’ prayer that “the love with which you have loved me may be in them.”
Such a stark contrast to the truth Solomon saw, “All is vanity.” We have a hope, thanks to the love that God showed to Jesus, and Jesus showed to us, something more than vanity, a relationship with God. Even when “all things are full of weariness”, that hope remains. Let us cling to that hope, allowing it to strengthen and motivate us, just as it did for Jesus.