Some commentaries say that it took Paul 3 years before he made it to Jerusalem. He took the time to get grounded in God. Do we take the time that we need to go deeper?
Of all of the verses in Ecclesiastes that we have read, 6:3 jumps off the page into my lap. "If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, ... I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Can we just say that some of these verses might better have gone in the book of Lamentations? I struggle through all the vanity is life verses. I know it is wisdom, but it is a heavy heart that wrote most of those words. Solomon knew. He had it "all" so to speak in human eyes--wealth, power, wisdom. Yet he grieved over the vanity of life, the temporal and fleeting state of putting all your energies into things of this world.
ReplyDeleteHe knew. Nothing brings joy but one thing. Psalm 27:4 speaks of it. "One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple."
One thing counts for eternity. One wish. One prayer. One Focus. The Lord Himself. All else is fleeting vanity.
I spent over 2 hours trying to write the entry and post it. I don't know what the problem was. The last few sentences never came through. Computers are great when they work.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine the time commitment of writing these posts every day, Bev. I'm so grateful to you for your commitment and talent to bring a remarkable wise post here daily. it makes my day to start it here! Love you.
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