"And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith." (Ecclesiastes 1:13 KJV)
"You see, we don't go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves." (2 Corinthians 4:5-7 NLT)
Breaking this down into two sperate points, both of which connect to one another, the first is one that is that which makes the least sense, from a human perspective; and that is putting it kindly. What I see that Solomon is saying, has to do with his unrelenting attempt to try a figure out, by man's wisdom, how God works; and when I say works, I mean how He controls everything from Heaven.
We know from His word that He has said that man cannot know His thoughts or His ways, because they are way too far above our paygrade! But, yet we still try, sometimes giving up some of the things we might care about, just to find the answers; answers that are beyond our reach, because they are beyond this measly existence!
The second part is just as promising, but at the same time, it is still productive. I would like to compare it to the analogy of the big giant rock illustration; how God my give us an assignment or task, which cannot be done, no matter how hard we try, we cannot budge that big giant rock! Yet, in the process of time, in the futile attempt to move something that we cannot move, we get stronger!
Crazy as it might sound, it works in mysterious ways, making us stronger in one respect, but breaking us down in another! God does not give us anything to do that we cannot do! But our will must be broken! It is really not that hard to understand, because if you are struggling to do something that you obviously cannot do, then it is God's task to do it, you are just standing in the way!
Again, the drowning thing is becoming more and more relevant. If you are flailing your arms all round, in futile attempt to save yourself, then the lifeguard will not go near you, and will just wait for you to give up. Once you have stopped, limply hanging there in the water, the lifeguard will rescue you and take you out of the water.
You cannot save yourself! Although there are many that try, they will not and cannot move that big giant rock, which is sin! Something that was placed before man, from the very beginning, when God told Adam, 'You may eat of every tree, except that one that is in the middle of the garden.' How often Adam must have looked at that tree, even touched it, felt the fruit, imagined what it might do; yet he had to tear himself away.
But then God gave Adam a help meet, that might help him to manage the garden...
"For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault." (Ephesians 5:25-27 NLT)
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