Bible Question:
Hi, my realization comes from the book of Ecclesiastes today. From my understanding of that book, is that everything in life is meaningless. Everything you do. Say if you go and run to the store, it's meaningless, if you work so hard all day and come home exhausted and stressed out, it's meaningless. The only way to not make it meaningless, is to fear that lord and keep all his commandments. Is that what we all must do then in all our days in our life? What if thoough, there are the poeple who are living for the Lord, and then the end days come and they didn't get taken from Jesus into heaven, even if they kept all the commandments and feared the Lord? I like to ask such questions because I'm curious. I would like to know what poeple say about them. If anybody knows the book of ecclesiastes or has some more insight in this, let me know, thank you. In Jesus Christ, Jason |
Bible Answer: Consider if you would the ever popular "If any man be born again he is a new creation in Christ and realize that when you put it side by side with Ecclesiastes 1:10 for example it is not an example of confliction but one of confirmation. There is not one man or woman in the entire bible that has not blown it at one time or another. Redundant we are. What the word teaches us is that we are and always have been a work in progress. If we never try to achieve perfection we never will. We never will on our own in this phase of our existance anyway, but we should never stop trying. Its like the word itself have you ever had someone say "oh yeah I have read the bible I dont need to read it again." So say today you run to the store and the clerk gives you too much change for instance and you do the right thing and return it so their drawer does not come up short. If you say nothing when you do it what glory does it give God? If you return it and maybe give a smile and say its what Jesus would do. Its more than a fear of God its a respect and reverence that all good things are done because he ordained it. It is like praying. Why do we bother when in Isaiah 65:24 he tells us he has already answered our prayers before we have prayed them. If we don't get in line with the entire word if we don't look and listen for every chance to give him glory and praise if we don't give forgiveness we shall never receive it. It is only meaningless if we don't serve the Lord. We all will have meaningless days, but what if it is only a lesson which means it was not meaningless because it taught us something. The word tells us that 50 percent of christians will not make it so I tell you that if they are living for the Lord and keeping all his commandments and they don't get to heaven they were never born again. Jesus never truly lived in them, and they were here only to teach those who make it into The Kingdom of God a lesson. We are a chosen people God chooses not us. So everyday fear Him. Give God the respect and revere Him for he has given you every breath you take all the days of your life whether you have lived or believed in Him or not. Nothing is meaningless if you live for the Lord. Life is a gift from God himself do not do it the injustice of trying to understand all of its mysteries instead in all things praise the Lord and you will at least have lived happily. |