A Thought for the Day – 060 – Rock, Paper, Scissors?
Wisdom adds grief for the wise person in that the wise uses the eyes in
his or her head. Solomon says that for the fool, he perceives everything
through the darkness of his or her interior parts. Hmmm! I wonder where that
is? Solomon also concludes that it matters little; whether you see it coming
with your eyes are react to it from the seat of your pants, the same events in
life happen to us all. A few years later it all drifts into vanity. Ecclesiastes
2:12-16
Comments and challenges
I
know that many of us live to remember events of the past, you know like
remembering the way it was by saying to someone; “ya know… back in the day,
this road were on went up over that hill yonder, it was rerouted when the mayor
of our little town decided that all the roads around town should be flat!” Of
course this little statement is false, but it does demonstrate the wisdom of both
the wise and the fool as well. It is not that the wise gets it right and the fool
gets it wrong, because through the corridor of time both become vanity in the
eyes of those who have to live with the results.
Solomon
provides answers to our questions of living in that he looks at three main
aspects of life that we sort of cycle through. Many of us do not pay attention
to these cycles within ourselves but we are very tuned in to what is happening
to the person next to us. For example; he says there are three observations
from ones perspective that he observes. ONE: Wisdom; TWO: Madness, and: THREE:
Folly. Ecclesiastes 2:12.
He
reminds me of that game that most of us have played, “rock, paper, scissors” by
saying that wisdom excels; darkness (madness) and folly, so wisdom is the principal
thing, therefore get wisdom, Proverbs 4:7. Some of us might conclude with this
thought; so what is the sense in living if the outcome of things does not
matter? I mean if what I do doesn’t make a change; then why do anything at all?
These
thoughts are very important. Physical life under the sun does matter but if you
have not noticed; there are many young people today who have no purpose for
living. They observe firsthand the wisdom, madness and folly of the fallen
world around them. The broken home being #1 on the parade of ten platforms that
are broken in this country and around the world. Want to know the other nine.
#2 –
the human spirit; #3 – sexual relationships; #4 – advancing evil; #5 – Haters of
God; #6 – civil disobedience; #7 – Parental disobedience; #8 – unloving relationships;
#9 – unforgiving circumstances; and #10 – pending physical death (Romans 1). In
this mindset there is no hope and no way out. For the young person the escape
is to bypass these events of hopelessness by opting out to #10.
The suicide
rate of young people is between seven and eight children per 100,000 per year
from age ten to twenty-five. For an example of how many that is per year? Just
in the United States alone in 2004 there were over 4,000 people who chose to
end their life because the future to them was hopeless. Now WHY? It is because
wisdom, madness and folly in our country is the hub mankind who has rejected
God. Men and women professing to be wise without godly input, they became
fools. Romans 1:22
As a
man or woman, or better yet; as a nation of men, women and children we need to
put on the brakes and stop our speeding vehicle of autonomous living and get
rid of it. Then we need to do what Isaiah said to Israel in Isaiah 55:1-13. We need
to return to God, instead of the thorn of our day we could have the cypress
tree, instead of the brier bush to come up we can have the myrtle tree; all we
need to do is turn to the Name that is above all names. JESUS, JESUS, JESUS the
sweetest name you and I will ever know.
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