Thoughts from Ecclesiastes Chapter 1
The greatest gift God gave to man asides from the gift of the Holy Ghost, is the gift of our imagination. Our imagination is our power of Creation. It is us becoming the potter and our thoughts our clay, we knead and shape them, if need be, beat them into the form we desire and birth them into this world.
The Holy Spirit asked me to study the book of Ecclesiastes, so I did. I noted the verses that jumped out at me and I took them with me to meditate, to beat out its true meaning as it were. The verse below is one of such verses …
Chapter 1 verse 13 specifies the fact that the focus of his (the Preacher) study was “human business”. In much human wisdom is much vexation. Human knowledge has no “hope” in it. Ax heads made of iron do not float. Seas do not part, you cannot walk 40 years in the desert without one person dying, your clothes growing with you and other strange things…this is not human knowledge. Human knowledge is about learning limits…and pushing those limits…the knowledge of God is understanding how limitless His love and power towards us is.
Chapter 1 speaks about the futility in hard work and quest for knowledge, considering that those deeds and wealth will not last forever. Nothing new is born under the sun, what we simply have is a revamp of the old with a thin veneer of newness. I understood the very despondency of human wisdom, there is no ultimate truth, only the continuous trek up the dune, and upon breasting it, you find there is yet another crest. You might say, the journey, not the destination is the important thing. I agree, but there is no hope in this journey for the culmination of man’s wisdom. Only the Word of God and the Works of God are eternal. His stance on a matter bears the stamp of eternity and perfection, you cannot improve on it! You cannot 2.0 it!
We seek to better our surrounding by learning of them, but let us be reminded that God is the author of eternity and the pursuit of the knowledge of Him holds more value than man himself.
