In his quest for meaning and purpose in life, King Solomon used his God-given wisdom and extensive experience to find purpose. In Ecclesiastes 2:12-23, he pursued wealth and material abundance as the keys to meaning and purpose. Solomon tested the two extremes of the human condition—wisdom on the one end and foolishness on the other. It was obvious that wisdom was better than folly. The wise man sees the dangers and avoids them, whereas the fool does not. But this begs the question, why be wise, because both die? What sense does that make? Perhaps it really was better to eat drink and be merry, because tomorrow we die, he reasoned. Was it not in fact “wiser” to be a fool? For both the wise and the fool, everyone will forget them. “I hated life,” he declared. There seemed to be no reason to work hard, to be wise—it was ultimately, in light of death, meaningless!

To be consistently an advocate for the value and worth of human life is a significant challenge in 2025. Those who name the name of Jesus Christ must test their value system and strive for consistency and authenticity as advocates for life. Indeed, columnist and evangelical Christian, David French, argues that “A decent society should do all it reasonably can to reduce human suffering. It should not, however, do so by extinguishing the lives of those who suffer or the lives of those who we believe might suffer in the future.”