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Ten truths Ecclesiastes Taught Me
Foolishness ruins wise leadership and leaves me vulnerable to incompetency.
I cannot be surprised when the news explodes with stories of fallen leadership or foolish government policies.
Solomon has taught me that living in a broken world means foolishness will make wise leadership vulnerable and weak.
I must pray for my leaders and use discernment when I elect them into office, which means I cannot simply vote along part lines.
I really need to pay attention to their character and their convictions.
Because life is painful, I have to make the most of it, which is hard, and I must find joy in the mundane things of life like meals and marriage.
I need to stop and smell the roses more often.
Solomon has made me realize that God is very aware of my hardship on earth.
He has given me outlets of joy if I will take advantage of them.
A beautiful sunrise is a joy.
Riding the bus in the morning with Abigail and Abram and the TTV kids is a joy.
Hearing bubby laugh is a joy.
Eating a big meal together with my friends is a joy.
Last night I sat next to my wife on the couch with no T.V. on or kids pressing in for something.
There is great joy all around us in-spite of the nonsense.
Look for it.
I live in a world where bad things happen to wise people, and good things happen to foolish people, creating an uncomfortable tension between my faith and God’s mysterious ways.
We live in a world where things get turned upside down creating an uncomfortable tension in our faith.
I’ve followed your ways as best as I can.
Why am I suffering?
Why am I suffering, while, my neighbor who despises you seems to flourish?
I don’t know, exactly.
I know the world is broken and that allows it to get turned upside down.
I know that God is far wiser than I am.
He is able to 10 million things at once and see light years into the future.
He is sovereign and able to do whatever he wants without anything stopping him.
So if you are really feeling the tension of between your faith and God’s mysterious ways, hold fast.
God is working everything for your good.
William Cowper was a hymn writer in the 1770’s.
He was close friends with John Newton. he suffered greatly from depression and despair.
It got so bad that he unsuccessfully tried three suicide attempts.
Cowper could not always reconcile the tension he felt of God’s sovereignty and his faith in suffering, but he understood it.
He wrote a powerful hymn about it, that has brought comfort to me when I am blind to God’s wisdom in allowing the wise to suffer and the foolish to prosper.
Listen to Cowper’s wisdom:
1. God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.
He plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
2 You fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds you so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.
3 His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding ev'ry hour.
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flow'r.
4 Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan his work in vain.
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
Pride corrupts my religion.
I am prone to be foolishly religious by coming to God’s house without any humility or intent to listen and obey his instruction.
To enter God’s house without humility or any intent to obey his instruction is enter his house with unbelief.
Unbelief is rooted in pride and is deadly.
Guard your heart from such evil and have ears to hear and eyes to see. it is so easy for the religious to enter God’s house depending on their religion, their works, and their own righteousness.
Never lose sight of the cross.
He is your confidence to stand before a holy God.
Come to church in humility.
Come ready to hear God’s word with a joyful heart eager to obey what you learn.
I am also prone to foolishly believe that earthly wealth will satisfy eternal longings.
I get messages every day from my culture that tries to sell me the idea that wealth will satisfy my heart.
I get the messages through text, on billboards, through commercials; its everywhere.
More wealth more power more prestige more pomp.
Solomon, the richest man who ever lived, says to me, “God put eternity in your heart, Jason.
There is no earthly lust that can satisfy your enteral longing.
Jesus says to me, “Jason, what good is it for you to gain the entire world and lose your soul in the process?
Don’t you know the lust of this world, the pride of your eyes, all of this is perishing.
Store up treasure in heaven where the thief cannot steal nor rust destroy.
Above all, do not fear the one who can kill the body, fear the one who can kill both body and soul.
I am so surrounded by the corruption of the wicked that my heart burns for justice, but not too much justice.
Over the last two years, we have seen justice challenged at its very core.
With government overreach and anti-establishment groups having a platform to decide what is just and what is unjust, our hearts long for Christ to return and establish his sovereign rule.
However, as much as we like justice for others, it is difficult for us to be as passionate for it when justice is wielded our direction.
When God comes to reconcile every injustice, that includes yours as well.
If you are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, his atonement will absorb your injustice.
But if you are here playing church, being religious, you don’t want God’s justice.
It will consume you.
I have to come to terms with the reality that God has ordered time for everything in this world to have its season.
Life is a rollercoaster of sorts.
There are good times and there are bad times, both must come to an end.
For the bad times, that means suffering will only last a season.
This too will pass.
For the good times, that means that the valley is on the horizon.
We have to come to terms with this reality in the world.
Enjoy the good while it is good.
Endure the bad, knowing it will not last forever.
I desire pleasure, prudence, and productivity in this life, which is good, however, I go about it the wrong way.
Work is good.
Pleasure is good.
Wisdom is good.
How I go about getting these three things in my flesh always leads to destruction.
I find pleasure in unholy desires and appetites.
I use worldly wisdom to manipulate.
I work too much to gain so little.
I’ll continue this cycle over and over again until I die.
That is how you get the American Dream.
God has no problem with pleasure, prudence, and productivity.
He designed all three of them for us to enjoy.
Sin distorts them and only God can sort them out.
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