Solomon's Porch: Never Wearied or Cynical
The reason most of us are not pessimistic...
- is either that we are religious or we have a temperament that is optimistic.
- The basis of life is tragic,
- and the only way out is by a personal relationship to God on the ground of Redemption.
- Solomon deliberately revolted against everything
- and found there was no satisfaction in anything he tried.
- trying to find true joy in being either a fool or a wise man.
- Solomon drives us back every time to the one thing,
- that a man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever.
- against the Wisdom of the Hebrews and the wisdom expressed in the New Testament.
- We don’t think on the Bible lines,
- consequently we talk the most ridiculous platitudes.
It is absurd to be an ostrich...
- Solomon would not allow himself to be one,
- neither will the man who sees life fair and square as it is to-day.
The only way we can enjoy our “tree of life”...
- is by fulfilling the purpose of our creation.
- Jesus Christ prayed “that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.”
The thing that kept Jesus Christ all through...
- was not that He held aloof from actual things,
- but that He had a kingdom within.
- He so did not hold aloof that when men saw Him
- they said, “Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!”
- was rooted and grounded in God,
- consequently He was never wearied or cynical.
Adapted Excerpts From
Shade of His Hand
Oswald Chambers
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