Our days are counted each and everyone of us have an appointed time to leave this earth. As we travel on our journey through life we encounter things; things that are meaningful and those that are not. Now, the preacher; Salomon, said that all is vanity ever our very lives are vanity. Vanity- hebel- something transitory and unsatisfactory; like vapor. For some of the lives we live are not all that satisfactory and in part it is to our doing. Satisfaction to life is in our hands, we decide how satisfactory our lives is going to be. If we engage in inappropriate or appropriate behaviors determines how fulfilling our lives will be, but let it be known that it will still be a vanity just not the ultimate vanity. There is a system of classification for vanity and it ranges from just a vanity; maybe a small vanity like blowing a day off and doing absolute nothing, to the ultimate vanity where your life is hanging by a thread in a hospital bed. <\/p>\n
Ecclesiastes 12:8<\/p>\n
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.<\/p>\n
From the vary gadgets we use daily to some of the food we eat vanity can be found. almost all the gadgets we buy today have a termination date from the date you buy. For our luck, many times we buy some electronic with extended insurance it seems to die right after the date when the insurance expires. Our foods come with expiration dates and if you eat expired food your stomach will pay for it. All is vanity. But, there is a vanity; the mother of all vanities, that transcends all vanity and that is your heart where life is. And, we decide what vanities we put into our hearts to either make it happy or sad. The preacher tells us that we need to remove those vanities that make our hearts hurt (Ecc. 11:10, prov. 4:23). Our hearts will get clogged up with all sort of things; vanities if we let it. And, depending the vanity that is presiding in our heart the time of our lives can be shortened or extended. For example, vanities that will help you extend your life based on what the scripture tells us are; if children obey their parents and honor them they will have long life (Eph. 6:1), and if we love the Lord with all our lives he will extend our lives longer (Ps. 91:14-15). But, our lives are the ultimate vanity, which means it will end (Ecc. 12:1-3). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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