Ecclesiastes 7:27-29 Where is your commitment?

Good morning everyone! God is good all the time, all the time God is good. TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!


Wow! In today's verses I cannot say in a few words the depth of the meaning. Look at the Life Application Ecclesiastes 7:27-29 "This is my conclusion," says the Teacher. "I discovered this after looking at the matter from every possible angle. Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman! But I did find this; God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path."

Did Solomon think women were not capable of being virtuous (wise and good)? NO, because in Proverbs 31:10-31 he personified wisdom as a responsible woman. Take time to flip back a few pages and read this. The point of Solomon's statement is not that women are unwise, but that hardly anyone, man or woman, is upright before God.

Solomon suggests that one man in a thousand has discovered the way of wisdom and profit, the inference being that the path that leads to wisdom is narrow and found by only a few. The wisdom woman of Proverbs 31 can only be known through the monogamous right-man - right-woman relationship. The wisdom woman, in Song of Solomon gives her heart alone to that man who has given his heart to her with an inviolable pledge of commitment.

Solomon had given his heart to his harem, and thus he exempted himself from the ecstasy of an intimate relationship with a woman of wisdom. Where is your commitment? Where is your heart? To God first or to Lust first? Then to your wife or to the wants (desires) of lust? It is tough and YOU cannot do it yourself; JESUS can! Call upon HIM now. Love you all.

In Christ's Love and Grace

Johnny