Take pleasure in life's toils

What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man. I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away. (Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 ESV)

Today was a day of frustrations.  I turned to the book of Ecclesiastes and read.  The above scripture is so true.  God knows all, has seen all, and He knows the future outcome of everything.  We are to take pleasure in the toils of this world.  That seems counter intuitive at first, but I suppose it goes along with the Axium "there is no pleasure without pain" or perhaps the opposite is equally true, "there is no pain without pleasure".  Either way, it is the various trials of life that provide the variety and flavor to our lives, and we should learn to enjoy it while fulling trusting in Him to handle the outcome.