Life Is A Corkscrew
The Teacher says in Ecclesiastes 1:15 MSG that “Life’s a corkscrew that can’t be straightened, A minus that won’t add up.” In other translations or words, whatever is wrong cannot be really made right and whatever is missing cannot be found. I’m curious, what then happens to the saying that “you can right the wrongs”?
Most people give or receive second chances in life and some will usually say, “I’ll make it all up again”. To the Teacher’s point, we cannot really make anything right again. Instead, we build a new and better life or experiences to overcome what was already done or lost. For example, if you hurt or cause pain to someone and you’re given a chance to make it right, you cannot wipe away the hurt or pain, you will compensate for it by creating great moments, turning over a new leaf, becoming a better person or doing whatever it takes to make the person happy. Good experiences have the power to erase the memories of bad ones. The Bible even reiterates that we should always overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21 paraphrased). I know there’s a world somewhere where there’s no evil or pain or disappointment, a world where the corkscrew always fits right back in the bottle. The only caveat is that we cannot experience that world in our mortal bodies but one day, if we keep living our lives on earth with Jesus Christ, we will be in that world with Him in eternity.
So, as long as we are flesh and blood, life will remain a corkscrew. It will never fit the wine bottle again but you can put a new stopper in or chip out some pieces off the old corkscrew to make it fit. May your week be filled with beautiful moments and experiences that will erase the old pain and hurts. AMEN!
XOXO,
Lady Abena.
Declarations For March 2023
This is what the Lord has declared over our lives in this month, if we walk in His statutes and keep His commandments and obediently do them;
- He will give us rain in its season, and our land will yield her produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- We will eat our bread and be filled and live securely in our land.
- The Lord will also grant us peace in the land, so that we may lie down and there will be no one to make us afraid.
- He will also eliminate harmful animals from our territories, and no sword will pass through our area.
- We will chase our enemies, and they will fall before us by the sword. Five of us will chase a hundred, and a hundred of us will put ten thousand to flight; our enemies will fall before us by the sword.
- The Lord will turn toward us with favor and regard and make us fruitful and multiply us, and He will establish and confirm His covenant with us.
- We will eat the old supply of abundant produce, and clear out the old to make room for the new things He is bringing into our lives.
- He will make His dwelling among us, and He will not reject nor separate Himself from us.
- He will walk among us and be our God, and we shall be His people. He has broken the bars of our yokes and caused us to walk upright with heads held high as free men.
We declare it is so and so it is in Jesus’ name. AMEN!
XOXO,
Lady Abena.
Pleasures And Possessions
In Ecclesiastes 2:1-9 AMP, “The Teacher” describes the kinds of possessions he acquired and how much pleasure he had in enjoying them;
“...So I became great and excelled more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me. Whatever my eyes looked at with desire I did not refuse them. I did not withhold from my heart any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor; and this was my reward for all my labor…” Ecclesiastes 2:9-10 AMP.
At the end of it all, he said that everything he had acquired, and all the pleasures he had experienced were useless. (Ecclesiastes 2:11 paraphrased). God told Solomon there will never be anyone that will come after him that will be greater than him. Meaning, with all of our accomplishments today, so many centuries after King Solomon, there’s still no one that has acquired as much as he did. If you study the life of King Solomon, you’ll understand what true extravagance means. He was the definition of it. The sons of today seem to be in pursuit of that kind of life. We are amassing wealth, possessions, and pleasures and for most people, it comes at the cost of them losing themselves in the process. They lose their soul, they do not even care who they hurt or kill just to be rich. It’s that kind of pursuit that “The Teacher” is referencing to be futile because in the end, you will not take any of those things to the grave. This is in no way saying that it is wrong to work hard to acquire things. I am a strong believer in prosperity - I hate poverty with passion and I reject it with all of me BUT, if you’re acquiring wealth in evil ways, it’s pointless. If you do not use the wealth you have to serve God and His purposes, nor use it to bless humanity, then to “The Teacher’s” point, it is futile.
What I’d like for us to meditate on this week is, what is your motivation in acquiring wealth, possessions and pleasures? Are you thriving in your pursuit of wealth or you’re losing your soul and hurting others in the process? How is your life, your resources and possessions blessing people? I pray that the Lord will guide our hearts in our pursuit of prosperity and pleasures.
XOXO,
Lady Abena.