‘Life Is Just An Empty
Breath.’
Ecclesiastes 1:1-2.
a)
God allows this to be in His Word to Teach us
that He understands all human experience.
b)
Psalm 39:5; 144:4. King David had the same
experience.
c)
Psalm 39:11. This can be our experience when
God corrects us.
d)
Psalm 62:8-9. This can be our experience if we
trust in people and not in God.
e)
Psalm 78:32-33. This was Asaph’s understanding
of the History of God’s Old Testament People. They were just empty sinners.
f)
Psalm 94:11. Sometimes our thoughts are just
empty breath too.
g)
Ecclesiastes 11:10. Childish and immature ways
need to be stopped, they are empty and futile.
h)
Ecclesiastes 5:7. The alternative way to live,
instead of vanity is to live in and with the Fear of God.
i)
Job 7:3. Job had the same experience.
j)
Job 15:31. Eliphaz accused Job of vanity and
spoke strongly against it.
k)
Isaiah 40:17. Isaiah realised that all Nations
are vanity. God counts them as nothing.
l)
Jeremiah 16:19. Jeremiah understood that when
Nations turn to the Lord they can come out of it. In actual history of the
Church, true revival has never lasted more than two generations. The Nations
turn back to their vanity again. All across the World today Bible Teachers and
Pastors need HUGE encouragement.
m)
Jeremiah 51:17-18. All idols are vanity.
(Through
this QT I understand that for so many people Life Is Just An Empty Breath and
only by having the Fear of the Lord can we get out of such a life)
‘Not
To Get Out But To Get In.’
Colossians
4:3.
a)
Apostle Paul called for Prayer support from
the Church in Colosse.
b)
He wanted God to open the door for himself and
his team to speak the Mystery of Christ in Colosse.
c)
He was in the Colossian jail as he wrote this.
(This Second one reveals to me
Apostle Paul’s very pure motive: Not To Get Out But To Get In)
Chris.
For so many people, even people
who would designate themselves as “Christians” life seems to them to be nothing
more than an empty and meaningless vapour. I have been through that experience
myself in the past, especially when my wife was very sick. It is so easy to get
on to that track at times of discouragement because the first station down that
track is self pity. There is a way out, a very real way out, if we Fear the
Lord.
