Title: Experience Spiritual Buoyancy
Ecclesiastes (16) Experience spiritual buoyancy (Ecclesiastes 5:13-20)
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In order to succeed in life, you must have a good view of life, but you must also have a good view of history. History and time belong to God. People mistake time for their own and design a wonderful life, but God puts time under God's authority. Of course, it is not wrong for humans to plan. You cannot succeed without a plan. However, we must not forget that the Lord of time is God. The course of life belongs to God.
When Jonah went to Tarshish instead of going to Nineveh, he must have rejoiced from the bottom of the boat. “No matter what God says, life is what I want it to be.” However, God moved Jonah's steps to Nineveh through a strong wind. The young Saul went to Damascus to arrest the saints, but God blinded his eyes, opened them, and sent them back to Jerusalem. Even if it seems that the way of life is in you, you are in God's providence and plan.
Success is also in God's hands. Many people today go out to see the morning star, work all day and come back late at night, but not all of them are successful. It is proof that success is not in people's hands. After all, people have nothing to be proud of. All human pride is false pride. Life flashes and then disappears. Some people boast about their health, but that health can disappear in a flash tomorrow.
Also, how fast do the years pass? When you are a boy, time walks slowly, when you are young, it runs fast, when you are old, it flows like flesh, and when you are old, it flies away. Time is accelerating, and the future passes much faster than the years that have already passed. So don't fall for materialism. If you just build up material, you are dominated by matter rather than controlling it. Of course, you have to do your best to get the material, but go to the next level where you use it for God and your neighbor. Don't live with material possessions and present them as evidence on Judgment Day.
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People accumulate wealth for happiness, but those who have wealth are not happy, but rather worry and worry about protecting their wealth and live more unhappy (verse 13). No matter how wealthy you are, once a major accident occurs and a great disaster strikes, they will all disappear and you will be left with nothing to leave behind (verse 14). People say that they came empty-handed and go empty-handed (verses 15-16). If you dishonestly acquire wealth and accumulate those things, you will lose peace, lose people, and eventually become miserable.
Blessing is living content with what God has given you in return for your sweat (verses 18-19). After all, living according to God's will in God and enjoying what God has given us is the real blessing. When you pray, ask according to God's will in order to make that prayer a prayer that is answered. Matthew 6:33 says this. “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” If you pray according to God's will, God will add everything else.
Psalm 37:4 says this: “Rejoice in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” When does God grant the desires of our hearts? It is a time to please God by praising God's goodness, giving thanks, and rejoicing. When we pray, we pray according to God's good will, believe that prayer will be answered in the best way, and if we rejoice and give thanks, that prayer becomes a powerful prayer that changes the environment.
Always keep God at the center of your life and never be shaken. People consider and pursue success, pleasure, and honor as the most important values, but God is the only object they should pursue with all their heart, will, and strength. It is not easy to live according to God's will in an unrighteous world, but if you live your life by giving up your entire life to God in order to live according to God's will, at some point your body and mind will float on the waves of blessing and peace. ) will be experienced. Be the experiencers of such spiritual buoyancy.