The Complexity of Life!

Ecclesiastes 1:14-15 (KJV) 

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. ¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

          Dorothy Sayers wrote in one of her mystery novels, "There is nothing you cannot prove if only your outlook is narrow enough."  Solomon did not take that approach.  Solomon took a very broad approach to investigating life.  In this chapter, he is really struggling to find meaning in life.  The first eleven verses Solomon refers to the cycle of life.  He investigates life from a historical perspective and he still could not come to a meaningful conclusion about life.  He found out life has a natural process and things will return back to the place they started.  Solomon implicates life is futile.  

When Solomon arrives at verse twelve, he starts investigating life from a philosophical perspective.  He suggests as king, he had all the resources to experiment with what gave life meaning and made it worth living.  During his investigation, he looked at the world.  He became burdened by the fruitless, fleeting and unsubstantial nature of human actions and endeavors.  He stated it was a “vexation of spirit” which is translated as “chasing the wind.”  He became frustrated because there were things in him and the world he could not straighten out. 

Have you ever been frustrated when trying to figure a way to deal with your imperfections and feel like you are just chasing the wind?  The burden becomes more cumbersome when we look at the injustices and crookedness of the world we live in.   No matter how hard we search or investigate for answers, there are some things we will never be able to figure out.  The more we learn we should see our ignorance! 

We have to trust God to reveal to us the solution at the appropriate time.  What imperfection are you struggling with about yourself or the world we live in? The answer is found in fellowship with God through prayer and reading the word of God! 

God bless and keep you is my prayer.