Prosperity & Adversity in ones life

 

Ecclesiastic 7:14-29

 

 

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

 

Bless is the person that receives both blessing and trials, knowing they both had to go through your Father's hands before reaching you.  One may wonder why God allows a righteous person to suffer and die and an evil person seems to have all the blessing of God.  But have no doubt God is the righteous Judge, and this life is like a wind that blows for a while and is no more, but eternity is endless, and it is that world where the righteous will have a life in the presents of the Lord, and the wicked will be judged and end up in a place of torment that is endless.  Totally apart from God and all others, for eternity, but very much alive.

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In my vain life, I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.   Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?   Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?   It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

 

Wisdom is a gift only God can give to us, education is a good thing but look at the many college professors that claim there is no God, no Creator, no high authority, and God calls them fools. 

 

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins

Yes, we have all sinned and the person that says they have not, is a liar and the truth is not in them.

 

 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.   Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.  

How true, so be very careful, guard your heart, for out of the mouth the heart speaks.

 

All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.  That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.   And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.   Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.   See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

 

God has told us if we lack wisdom ask but make sure we are asking in a manner that pleases God, and not for a selfish reason.  The wises man born of earthly parents has shown and display by his life how easy wisdom can be a god that is never satisfied and want to have understanding in all things, and Solomon came to this conclusion that also is vain.  No man understands the thoughts and ways of God, they are high than ours, no one can contain Him, we are flawed He is Pure and Holy.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice