Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, April 11 (1:2,8)
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.... All things are full of labor, man cannot utter it, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing” — Ecclesiastes 1:2, 8.
THE natural man finds himself caught as on a great whirling wheel, with no power to stay the controlling hand of what seems like a relentless fate. So he finds life to be all vanity and a pursuit after the wind. But the Spirit-taught believer looks up and sees an exalted Christ at God’s right hand and knows that He is, in Himself, the Wisdom of God, and so can commit his life in confidence to His loving care, and can exclaim with gladness, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
—F. C. Jennings.