Ecclesiastes and its byproducts.
was challenged by the loverly pads at jackos through the medium of her devo about the whole ecclesiastical theme of meaninglessness... like we read it and go yep, sure meaningless cool... but thats it. like i heard somewhere, from a trustworthy source im sure... that the bible is about God, shock horror, not about us, so we should read it, remembering its about Him, not going... ok, now how does this about me, cause its not, its about JC and how everything in the bible is part of GODS plan and how His plan is fulfilled through JC. hence, we are not involved in that. so, when we read stuff we should go, this about the big G, how can i change so that it becomes about me, ie. if we are trying to become like JC, JC is God, hence trying to become like God, eg. holy and blameless and whatnot, like God. now apply THAT back to mr frowny and his book.
"meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.... i saw that everything under the sun was a chasing after the wind" i think thats right, i didnt quote, i just remember thats almost what it says....
ANYWAY... like, that should massively change us, we, slash i know i do, get stressed and involved in such worldly stuff, work and materialism and just stuff, and yet, its meaningless. like, thats pretty heavy, to know that basically everything in my life is a waste of time hey. and i think we need to let that like make our perspective a lil diff huh. instead of totally packing it over something ridiculously trivial like a test or a deadline of needing the coolest new thang, realising that, ultimately its uesless and going to pass away. i mean, its frieken hard to do, cause our world is so, ownership status focused, and yet, we know that all that stuff if futile transient temporary kind of stuff, and we need to be solid to be able to step back from that kind of junk.
my prayer for you guys is that you can abound in godliness and JC-like-perspective and be able to see when you need to push some stuff down the priorities ladder, and get God back on top, and also be able to make pracitical helpful decisions to remind yourself that this is not our home, nor is the stuff here important, and that you may become more like Dad, and make Him proud.
ciao brothers and sisters
rhyso
"meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.... i saw that everything under the sun was a chasing after the wind" i think thats right, i didnt quote, i just remember thats almost what it says....
ANYWAY... like, that should massively change us, we, slash i know i do, get stressed and involved in such worldly stuff, work and materialism and just stuff, and yet, its meaningless. like, thats pretty heavy, to know that basically everything in my life is a waste of time hey. and i think we need to let that like make our perspective a lil diff huh. instead of totally packing it over something ridiculously trivial like a test or a deadline of needing the coolest new thang, realising that, ultimately its uesless and going to pass away. i mean, its frieken hard to do, cause our world is so, ownership status focused, and yet, we know that all that stuff if futile transient temporary kind of stuff, and we need to be solid to be able to step back from that kind of junk.
my prayer for you guys is that you can abound in godliness and JC-like-perspective and be able to see when you need to push some stuff down the priorities ladder, and get God back on top, and also be able to make pracitical helpful decisions to remind yourself that this is not our home, nor is the stuff here important, and that you may become more like Dad, and make Him proud.
ciao brothers and sisters
rhyso
posted by toj at 10:48 am
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