After riding all of the rides at the Disneyland of his time, Solomon admitted that
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
2 He had drifted from God. Although the brightest ever in government and economy, with multiple fairy tale love stories to tell, and the wisest according to the wisdom of the world, no man ever played the fool better and more thoroughly than Solomon did.
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God works in mysterious ways, it is said. He is there in the midst of the worst of times. His plans include tests, trials, tragedies, and troubles. For all of us, without exception. However, for those who have accepted His adoption through Christ, this magnificent God never forsakes.
In 1985, my wife Cindy and I helped a friend who had discovered she was pregnant; she was a pastor’s daughter who had made a mistake. Having enough sense to recognize that two wrongs don’t make a right, she quietly exited the singles scene for a year to have the baby and place it up for adoption. Last week, after 35 years, her little bundle-of-joy contacted her:
“I've had a wonderful a life, a happy life, filled with unforgettable memories and [loving parents and siblings]! Of course, there have been ups and downs, but I’ve always trusted God to work things through. … If you ever had any doubt about your decision, I hope reading this puts your heart and mind at peace!”
This mother, 35 years ago feeling trapped in a maze with no way out, put in motion the mighty powers of omnipotence. “
In my distress,” she cried, “
I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God” [Psalm 18:4]. Though it was but the call of a weak solitary voice, unheard on earth, it reached Heaven, and the answer shook all creation: ‘
He heard my voice out of His temple. … Then the earth shook and trembled’ [Psalm 18:6,7]. One saint in his extremity put in motion the mighty powers of Omnipotence: overwhelming is the contrast between cause and effect. Wonderful as the greatness, equally marvelous is the swiftness of the answer: ‘
Then the earth shook.”’
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At some point in the future, with 60 million babies murdered in their mother's womb, our children or grandchildren will be wanting to know,
“Why didn’t somebody, somewhere, do something?”
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Spirit come and change the atmosphere, Convict and open hearts here.
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Thankfully, Gideons and Rahabs are beginning to stand.
David Lane
American Renewal Project
1. stream.org/decent-burial-and-names-for-the-thousands-of-hoarded-fetuses-in-mayor-petes-south-bend/
2. Ecclesiastes 1:2
3. J. Vernon McGee, www.studylight.org/commentaries/ttb/ecclesiastes.html
4. A.W. Pink’s classic
The Life of David.