Vanity, Vanity!

I wanted to link to a good read on this subject that led me to another good one.


From Linda at Wake Up People!

If Solomon had and X-box  (what a great title)

  I think that if Solomon had had an X-box, he might not have had so many wives. He would have been able to distract himself from the fact that nothing in this world matters. That all is vanity and then you die. read on

AHA!

That's part of the angsty stuff that set me off on this whole God journey way back and I see that it keeps coming around. Even when we know the Lord, it comes back once and a while. So much of my interest in the rapture in years past I think plays into this. This world is passing, so what the heck are we doing here? Let's just get outta here already.




She also experienced God sending her in one direction only to bring her back to where she started:

So I was very confused on why the Lord would have me go on an amazing journey out into the wilderness just to have me seemingly go back to the life I left. The point is - the wilderness is not a destination. Just as Jesus did not stay on the cross. It is part of the process - but it not the end of the matter.

That brought to mind Moses and Jacob just off the top of my head. God called them out, sent them away, and then brought them back to where they began. That is something for another day perhaps.


Anyway, that is what my main problem with life was back before God found me. What is the point? I mean you live, you die, and that's it. 

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. Ecc 2:17

But why are we aware of this vanity? He made it so, so that we would look for Him, search for something more.

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope  Romans 8:20

Linda linked to another post by Jacob Israel at A Voice in the Dead Woods.




As vain as all this seems at times, There is HOPE in this knowledge that we have-those of us in Christ presently that

WE WILL OVERCOME

This is a  lengthy, and meaty,  not a quick read, but has a lot of good nuggets.

There is great comfort in knowing that whatever decision you make, or have made, that all of it was exactly what had to happen and had to be. That even your mistakes were necessary for you to learn better. There is great peace in knowing all will be well, regardless of how terrifying things seem to be. We MUST trust that the work that began in us will end in victory. We MUST stop thinking of how wrong everything seems to be and start seeing how great things are going to be. We MUST trust God and be able to live our lives without the fear of failure or ruin. We MUST know that whatever comes upon whether good or bad is a necessary part of the plan and we MUST learn how to praise God in it all. more here

And then it hit me in a new way.  This whole thing is not about us. I know, that is what everyone says, but for a brief passing second, I GOT it.  He does have a plan and everything EVERYTHING (the good, the bad, the ugly- you dig) is part of it.  Even though this isn't about us, but Him, He will bring us into Himself and make us co-heirs to all that is His.... How great is that?


We are in Christ, Christ is being formed is us...

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.Jhn 17:22

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.1Cor 15:28

So as we trudge through the day to day knowing all is vain...in THIS state anyhow, we await a new day when all will be anything but.