Here are some verses that have been on my mind lately..I don't know why but they seem somehow to go together.....
Lately, Often I've been really struck just by how meaningless our wisdom and the things we call important are....as it says in Ecc. 2:10-16
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my work,
and this was the reward for all my labor.
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.
What more can the king's successor do
than what has already been done?
I saw that wisdom is better than folly,
just as light is better than darkness.
The wise man has eyes in his head,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.
Then I thought in my heart,
"The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?"
I said in my heart,
"This too is meaningless."
For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
in days to come both will be forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise man too must die!"
We try so hard...only to die in the end, the only thing that was gained was the things that were done for Christ....some other verses I came across recently were from 1 Corinthians 1:20-31
"Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
And one in Esther.
he sent back this answer: "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"
-Esther 4:13-15
Sometimes I look at everything I strive for and it all seems so empty..at which I have to believe that I'm striving for the wrong things....It's so important to remember that God longs to take our nothingness and our weakness and to use us, we can't look at our lives and call it all our gain...we are placed, chosen and called...we don't come to God on our own but by His gentle hand drawing us to Himself....you can take this 2 ways....My dad pointed out the other day that the world is trying to say that morality was their idea..that man is basically good, like it had nothing to do with a God...Morality, the law and everything was God's idea...not ours....we as humans are seriously nothing....in a recent letter with a friend it was said "How could a God so perfect.... use the imperfect....it's rather humbling to think about it....like have you ever heard one of those speakers who tell you for an hour or two straight about who God is and at the end you end up feeling ....lowly and worthless...But then there's the other half of the time when you take it all for granted and then you begin to put yourself higher and think you have it all......but the fact is... we are very important to God...we are His children...His pride and Joy the Love of His life...we are very important.....BECAUSE OF HIM....And somehow He over looks our imperfections and loves us with a love unexplainable.
I really don't know if any of that made sense...just some thoughts.....sorry it was so long
