Thoughts for another day

Sept. 20, 2012.

Today's verse: Eccl. 11:5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

The mind of man is somehow, I really don't know how; arrayed against God which it shouldn't be.  See, we immediately rebel against God, atleast in our minds all the time, blaming God for everything that goes wrong.  You may not want to believe but that's the fact.  It happens in the greatest men of God too: Paul says, 'I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature (Ro. 7:18).'  And he also says in verse 15 of the same chap. 'I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do.' Strange isn't it?  Do I really have something in me that's always against God and His ways?  Do I really harbor deep within, a desire to upstage God?  Do I really want to tell Him, how smart I am and I can run my life better than He can? David talks of 'hidden faults' - those unfathomable dark darts of treachery against God, waiting every moment to fault Him, the way the Pharisees waited to humiliate Jesus. 

My friend, in everyone of us they're there and they're bad for they are prone, if not nipped in the bud, to make us go against our beautiful Father, God of heaven and earth.  How is all this related to our Scripture?  Well, if our dark desires put us against God then we assume we know things the way He does, but Qoheleth, the writer of Ecclesiastes, though bearing in him a reservoir of wisdom, didn't think that way for he realised that man knows nothing.  We may think we know, but we don't know this moment from the next, leave alone how things fall into place – or for that matter, how a child is created in the womb; alright technically we may know, but actually, do we?  Can we interfere in that process and modify the creative process?  No.  God will never give us that ability, no matter how much we progress, for remember, He is the potter and we're the clay and the potter knows no clay that can contribute to creation of its own form, apart from him!

Therefore, what we can do is fall at God's feet and wait.  For everything that you face today of despair and trouble, rely on Him. No human may be able to conceive a solution to the situation you're in, but He knows the solution.  When I look at myself, I don't know what my tomorrow is going to be, for the atmosphere I walk in, is dark and all I see is pain.  But for God, darkness itself is light (Ps. 139:12) and He will work out the way.  I only believe He can…and He will, for His love's sake.