Solomon’s great wisdom, status, and wealth backfired on him because he took his eyes off God. Solomon went into operation boomerang, a frantic search for happiness. Solomon tried to purchase happiness and it didn’t work. It was vanity, emptiness. “Whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labor that I had labored to do and behold everything was vanity and striving after wind” (Eccl 2:11). Look at your bank account. Look at your collections. They mean nothing. As Solomon said, “I came into this