Wise Guy?

Getting ready for InterVarsity tomorrow night and GPCS next week. My study has brought me, among other places, to Solomon. Solomon knew the Lord from a young age and had a special relationship with God. God granted him supernatural wisdom as well as material prosperity. Solomon reigned in a time when the nations around him were weaker. He enjoyed political and military strength and relative peace compared to his father and the kings that would follow him. So he should really have shined as a follower of God. Well...he didn't so much. Solomon instead gives much of his life to this world. He explores just how much fun the world can offer. Even though he has a relationship with God, it doesn't seem to inform his outlook on life. He lives it for this world. Then here's the "funny" part. After living this way, he writes his memoirs (Ecclesiastes) and says in a nutshell, "well, that was stupid." Isn't it interesting and rather sad that the wisest man who ever lived summed up his pursuits and decisions in life as stupid (vanity). I think for many of us who were raised to know God from a young age, we live eager to experience all the world has to offer, but we aren't going to abandon God, just pursue other things like Solomon. We have been taught better, we should know better, but the things of this world look like so much fun and so satisfying. Don't be a wise guy like Solomon who lived stupidly despite knowing God.