A Daily Devotional – Diligence – The Eternal Word
Comment: When we are young we can spend a
lot of time in the darkness of the world around us. Few young people regard God’s
Will, while they may know God personally, they tend to walk in the ways of
their heart. In other words, young people allow their heart to dictate or
govern their happiness. Also, they fix their eyes on temporal things and their
ears on the clamor of the world around them. Truly the light of life is sweet
and pleasant to the eyes, but it is temporal. As the years go by he or she will,
from time to time, remember all of their days on earth and will not forget the
days of their youth and darkness as these are not a few, but many.
Devotional: In
Ecclesiastes 11:1-10; King Solomon comments on the value of living diligently. For
example if you are preparing a meal to serve seven, make enough for eight, he
says it is evil to fail to provide for the unknown. While you have plenty, cast
it plentifully and it will return at the right time.
It never fails, if a cloud is full of water, it will
rain on the earth and if a tree falls to the earth, wherever it lands it will
stay. No one sows seed in the wind and the one who is understands the seasons
knows when to reap.
No one knows the ways of the wind, likewise no one
understands how bones grow in the womb of her who is with child. (Deuteronomy 29:29)
so we do not know all of the works of God, nor should we. He who makes all
things has given it to man to enjoy his life on earth. Solomon also notes that
it is good to sow your seed in the calm of the morning and evening, for as
simple as it may seem, you do not know which one will prosper.
Do not fail, be diligent for you do not know which
will prosper, either this or that, could be that both will be good.
Then Solomon appears to change the subject, but not
so; the days of one’s youth is a time of sowing wildly. But be diligent and
remove sorrow from your heart early in life as it is like chaff, put away evil
from your flesh, for childhood and youth are days of vanity, not diligence.
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