"The Wise and the Foolish"

  "So I decided to compare wisdom with foolishness and madness (for who can do this better than I, the king?). I thought, "Wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness. For the wise can see where they are going, but fools walk in the dark." Yet I saw that the wise and the foolish share the same fate. Both will die. So I said to myself, "Since I will end up the same as the fool, what's the value of all my wisdom? This is all so meaningless!" For the wise and the foolish both die. The wise will not be remembered any longer than the fool. In the days to come, both will be forgotten.

 So I came to hate life because everything done here under the sun is so troubling. Everything is meaningless - like chasing the wind." (Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 NLT) 

 "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1 Corinthians 1:18-25 KJV) 

 Seeing how we just had an Easter celebration; it should be fresh in our minds that Jesus, in His weakest moment, hanging upon the cross, performed the greatest display power, by giving up His life! This is the point of what Paul is saying, pretty much in a nutshell, as nutty as some might think it so be! 

 Solomon on the other hand, he is thinking upon a whole different level, one which deals with life, or death, depending how you gauge your existence here on the earth. Some people will dwell upon the present, looking back on favorite memories; while others, deal with the present, looking towards the moment of death. Either way, if you are not trusting in God's salvation, everything is meaningless! 

 Something else I have learned to try to put into practice, (if I can bring myself back to the heart of worship,) that a close relationship and understanding with God is just as close or as far as you make it! He is always right there, waiting for us to come to our senses; but we must surrender and willing to draw as close as possibly can! 

 What is holding us back, sometimes is just a lack of understanding! We might think God wants to bring everything out into the open, so we try not to get too far into whatever might be available: laying on of hands, being filled with the Spirit, sharing the Gospel message with a friend that needs salvation; all of which will possibly cause a big change, making us fear what might happen.

 God wants us to surrender! Dying to ourselves, and start living for Jesus...

"Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory; which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." (1 Corinthians 2:6-9 KJV)