Ecclesiastes Series – #meaning Part 11: “Playing The Fool”
This Sunday evening, we are going to be dealing with wisdom and folly. Solomon is going to help us to check our ‘jumper’ to see which team we’re playing for!
There are many ways in which we categorise ourselves: by gender or race, by economic status, by our educational level, by political party, by height and width and all kinds of interesting compartments we like to stick ourselves and others in. Solomon in his wisdom is going to classify humanity in two ways – the wise and the fool.
In today’s society, we find ourselves steeped in facts and trivia without much wisdom. We prize information, but have not developed an appropriate framework to wisely utilise that information. We pursue more experience in this life, but lack the ability to connect our experience to meaningful ways to live that are wise. So, we gather and gather but we become more and more foolish.
Unlike the fool, Jesus in His humanity grew in wisdom and stature (Luke 2:52).
Now, if God comes in the flesh and sets a pattern for us to live, and that pattern was one of growing in wisdom and stature, we should always be ready to learn.
The challenge for you and I is to set aside childish things while remaining like a child in our faith. A wise person knows the ways in which they should grow as well as the sins which should decrease. As we increase in wisdom, we should decrease in pride. As we increase in wisdom, we should decrease impatience. As we increase in wisdom, we should decrease our unbelief.
You and I don’t need more information, more experience, more insight or facts, what you and I need is to do what we know already.
Join us on Sunday the 2nd of July from 6.00 p.m. for a study in Ecclesiastes Chapter 10 and a sermon titled: ‘Playing The Fool’.