Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
And this was my reward from all my labor.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled;
And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.
This passage was written by the wisest King of Israel, Solomon. In his life time pursuit of wisdom and knowledge he learned that many things that mankind deemed valuable, had no value at all. The enemy knows that in keeping us busy with the pursuits of our flesh we will waist a life that was created to bring God glory. Sadly, most saints realize this late in life when they are not able to run for God as they would want to because of aging bodies. The enemy knows this fact as well and has destroyed the communication between older and younger generations. Solomon talked and wrote about these vanities towards the end of his life. We today even in the church do not take the time to honor the wisdom of our older generations. Their wisdom is much more valuable than pure gold. The enemy knows that if we stay busy with life and this ever changing age of technology, the art of seating and being still to listen to the wisdom of a seasoned saint will be lost!!!
While brothers and sisters all over the world struggle with the warfare of denying flesh, we must be steadfast in knowing that our struggle is not to live but to die. Today, even many of the works done in the church is done out of fleshly desires, whether for recognition by man, pride, maintaining salvation, earning salvation, or simply brokenness. The enemy knows that if he can keep you busy doing righteous works of the flesh, you will still be on a hamster wheel, not being in the Will of God!!! "In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working”, (John 5:17). "Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does" (John 5:19). God only blesses the works of His Will and our Savior Jesus Christ spoke directly to this by saying that He never performed a work that was not according to His Father's Will. Every work done by man will be tested by God's standard as it is written in 1 Corinthians 3:13 "their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work." Jesus moved and spoke when His Father told Him to move and speak. We are to have an intimate relationship with our Father so that we will hear His voice and know when to speak and work!!! "For in him we live and move and have our being.’[b] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring" (Acts 17:28). Letting go of the desires of our flesh and letting go of the desires of our righteousness, let us show the world the Light of our Marvelous God!!! Today, stop dying to live and LIVE to DIE!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of dying so that others may live on purpose!!!!!
2 Corinthians 5
Awaiting the New Body
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
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