SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/30/2013
11:29 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Wisdom &
Folly
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eccl. 10:1-3
Message of the
verses: Today we begin a new chapter
in the book of Ecclesiastes and also a new chapter in Warren Wiersbe’s
commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes in which he entitled “Be Satisfied.” He entitled this chapter “A Little Folly is
Dangerous.” Let’s first clear up what
the word folly means, for in the NASB the word is translated as foolishness to
that is what the word folly means. We
have in this chapter kind of a return of Solomon writing about wisdom, and he
even uses something similar in verse one that he used in 7:1 “A good reputation
is more valuable than costly
perfume. And the day you die is
better than the day you are born.”
When we read through the tenth chapter of Ecclesiastes we
will find the word “folly” (KJV) used nine times and so we can determine from
that that it is a major theme in this chapter.
Let’s look at the first three verses of this chapter to see what they
have to say: “1 Dead flies make a
perfumer’s oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor. 2 A wise man’s heart directs him
toward the right, but the foolish man’s heart directs him toward the left. 3
Even when the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking and he
demonstrates to everyone that he is a fool.”
We can conclude from verse one that what dead flies does
to perfume foolishness will do to the reputation of the wise person. The conclusion is that “wise people will stay
away from folly!”
Now we will move onto verse two which has the word “heart”
in it, and we can conclude that it is not talking about the physical that beats
inside your chest: “Watch over your
heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life (Pr. 4:23).” As far as the right and the left and how they
are used in this verse we have to realize that in the time that Solomon wrote
this book and even before the right had was a symbol of power and it also
represented honor while the left hand represented weakness and also
rejection. Let’s look at a couple of NT
verses to help us understand this a bit better:
“and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.” “"Then He will also say to those on His
left, ’Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been
prepared for the devil and his angels.”
These two verses are from the 25th chapter of the Gospel of
Matthew and Jesus is speaking about when He will return from heaven at the end
of the tribulation period. During that
time there will be a lot less people on planet earth than at the beginning of
the tribulation and there will be a mix of believers and non-believers and
these verses shows the fate of them both.
Note that the ones on the Lord’s right will go into the 1000 year
kingdom and the ones on the left will go into hell. Dr. Wiersbe writes on this
verse the following (“The English word ‘sinister’ comes from a Latin word that
means ‘on the left hand.’) Since the
fool doesn’t have wisdom in his heart, he gravitates toward that which is wrong
(the left) and gets into trouble (see 2:14).
People try to correct him, but he refuses to listen, and this tells
everybody that he is a fool (vs.3).
“Having laid down the principle, Solomon then applied it
to four different ‘fools.’” We will
begin to look at these four different fools in our next SD.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I suppose that I
have acted foolishly in my life, even after becoming a believer some 39+ years
ago. The thing that I don’t want to do
is act like a foolish person in the same area that I have in the past and that
means that I need wisdom.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to guide me in the different decisions
that have to make today.
Memory verses for the
week: 2 Cor. 5:17-21
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creature; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who
reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to
Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us
the word of reconciliation. 20
therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were making an appeal
through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on
our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Satan” (1 Thessalonians 2:18).
Today’s Bible
Question: “Whom did Jesus ask three
times if he love Him?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
5/31/2013 12:20 AM
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