“Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor” (Ecclesiastes 5:18, NKJV). Good and fitting is worth noticing. This isn’t a grudging permission, it’s a genuine endorsement of ordinary enjoyment.
So much striving treats enjoyment as something to earn later, after enough has been accomplished. This verse commends enjoying the good of labor now, in the midst of it.
This is a needed word for anyone who’s turned rest and enjoyment into something suspicious, always deferred for later.
What good of your own labor have you been deferring enjoyment of, that this verse says is actually good and fitting to enjoy now?