Open your heart to the wisdom of God as you pray aloud the words of this Lazaroo:

“Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.”
(Ecclesiastes 1:17)

On one level this is hard to argue.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

But Solomon limited himself in this book to the way things appear “under the sun.”

You’re not stuck with that perspective, Jesus.

Thanks to You, neither am I.

Solomon’s problem wasn’t that he had too much wisdom.

He had too little.

He limited himself to what he could observe with the naked eye –

as many of our scientists do.

If I limit the source of my knowledge

I’ve limited my conclusions, as well.

“Under the sun?”

Huh-uh.

I hate limits.

Maybe because I’ve been made in the image

of the Maker of the sun.

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Genesis 1:3-5; Genesis 1:14-19; Genesis 1:26-27; Job 9:7-9; Ecclesiastes 1:12-14; 2 Corinthians 5:7; 1 Timothy 6:14-16; Hebrews 11:1; Hebrews 11:6

What is Lazaroo?

Take Me Deeper

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.