"Transitive"

 "All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." (Ecclesiastes 1:8 KJV)

  "Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don't need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)" (Romans 8:18-25 NLT)

 Please forgive me for being so blunt! It's just that I see things that take place in our churches which make categories of the body of Christ, most of which are based upon what they think people should be or do or say, as if the weaker vessels are useless and don't belong to the body! This is not a race against each other, as some might think; Paul was not talking about racing to defeat one another, but to be an overcomer of our own fleshly desires! 

 Anywho, these first eleven verses of Ecclesiastes are very similar to John's first eighteen verses in his Gospel Message; they are prelude to that which is going to be said, to something that is more important. At the same time, it summarizes with a brief condensed message of the main points; leading the reader into a certain thought, pattern of thinking, or an expectation of how to understand what is going to be said. 

 As to this title, "Transitive," that is based upon the word, "Labour," found within the verse; the word is followed by the phrase, "man cannot utter it," which implies that it is too complicated to understand, no matter how hard we try, we never can get to the end of the thought or see the end of the tunnel! Much like the illustration of the view looking over the edge of a cliff; we won't actually see what that looks like, until we can see it, on the way down! 

 Another analogy would be God's tapestry that He is painting, which means that we are only a very small dot of paint, alone side other dots, all of which paint a perfect picture, which we are totally clueless of what it might look like, until we have His vantage point, to look down upon all that He has made. Until then, we receive what we are told, and believe what we have been shown; consistently hungering to see and hear more...

""And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead. For if the miracles I did for you had been done in wicked Sodom, it would still be here today. I tell you, even Sodom will be better off on judgement day than you." At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way! My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light."" (Matthew 11:21-30 NLT)