Wednesday Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:13
Key Verse: Ecclesiastes 1:13
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all which is done under the heavens. It is a sad task God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.
Devotion:
Have you ever set a goal and gone to reach that goal with gusto and with all perseverance? If you have not, then now is the time to try because without setting goals and going for them you will not know what it is to succeed or to fail. Why would anyone want to fail? Well, without failure we would all be weak and would give up on things as soon as they looked like they were going wrong. Failure in things leads to a new strength to work against that failure for the next time. Failure does not mean rejection but rather enlightenment as to how not to do things in the future. God will allow failure into our lives so that we can be strengthened by what we have to face up to. God wants us to be stronger so that we can face up to more.
Solomon set about trying to find wisdom outside of God. He was on a mission to find out how anyone could ever obtain wisdom without having God in their lives. What a goal to set! He knew it was a certain failure because true wisdom can only come from God. God was the one who had given him wisdom in the beginning so trying to seek out wisdom was a losing battle. He did that all so that we could see how much we need to depend on God. He did that all so that we could see the futility of seeking wisdom from the world. If someone else has already gone there and failed then surely we need not ride that same path to see if we can fail too...
We need to realise that our God is above all. We need to realise that our God is wise and that He has a perfect plan for each of us. We need to realise that we must follow His wishes for our lives in order to do His will. When we start to humble ourselves before our great God and know that He is GREAT then we have taken our first lesson in wisdom from Him. We don’t have to try all manner of things like Solomon went through; we can be wise and read what not to do without having to do it!
Points to Ponder:
DO you need to experience everything?
Do you not believe in God?
