“There may be an evil which I’ve seen beneath the solar, and it’s common amongst males: A person to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, in order that he lacks nothing for himself of all he wishes; but God doesn’t give him energy to eat of it” (Ecclesiastes 6:1,2).
IN SETTING OUR GOALS AND MAKING OUR PLANS, WE OFTEN ATTRIBUTE TO OURSELVES MORE POWER THAN WE ACTUALLY HAVE. Once we aspire to materials wealth, for instance, we’ve been taught by the motivational audio system to imagine that we are able to have something we would like: it is just a matter of getting sufficient drive and ingenuity. However there are two defective assumptions hidden on this pondering. One is that we are able to purchase nevertheless a lot wealth we need to purchase, and the opposite is that we can take pleasure in it as soon as we get it.
However it’s God who determines, first, whether or not we’ll be allowed to build up wealth and, second, whether or not we’ll be capable of take pleasure in it. Any of us is likely to be the “man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor” and but “God doesn’t give him energy to eat of it.” The reality is, God can maintain us from accumulating wealth if He needs to (regardless of our drive and ingenuity), and He can simply as simply maintain us from getting any lasting pleasure out of it. So write this down and always remember it: if we wrongfully aspire to wealth, one among God’s worst punishments is to allow us to have the factor we thought we needed after which make us extra depressing than we have been earlier than we received it.
So when our “dream comes true,” will it make us completely satisfied? Perhaps it’s going to, however then once more, possibly it received’t. Foolishly, we assume that getting the wealth we want will present the liberty to take pleasure in life and open the door to happiness. However that received’t be the end result if God doesn’t grant the enjoyment of the issues He permits us to accumulate. God might even see to it that our wealth offers us not freedom however slavery, and there’s no worse bondage than bondage to wealth. Because the saying goes, “Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.”
On the finish of the day, freedom has little to do with what we’ve got or don’t have. In reality, it doesn’t have a lot to do with our exterior circumstances in any respect. Even in jail, Paul had extra freedom than most of these strolling the streets outdoors his jail. Freedom is freedom from the sinful wishes which have sure us to the satan.
“Freedom doesn’t imply I’m able to do no matter I need to do. That’s the worst sort of bondage. Freedom means I’ve been let loose to turn into all that God needs me to be, to attain all that God needs me to attain, to take pleasure in all that God needs me to take pleasure in” (Warren W. Wiersbe).
Gary Henry – WordPoints.com + AreYouaChristian.com
