Timeless,
simply timeless. Two spider’s planning something great, trusting in
their ingenuity and reasoning. They waste their time and effort, for
they just don’t realize they are doomed to failure.
Sometimes,
it seems to me that human beings are like that, trusting in their own
intelligence and creativity, only to see the wind blow away their
efforts in an instant. Think I am wrong? Well, how about margarine,
remember how that was touted as THE replacement for butter; today,
virtually no one uses it because we are told it is not good for you.
Margarine is not the only thing, for we constantly see lawyers urging
people to sue over defective products that cause damage. People know
so much and understand so very little. They try to live a life
without God, but that life so often ends in ruin. Things like
divorce, bankruptcy and diseases caused by smoking, drinking, illegal
drugs can be avoided if we just lived our lives listening to God
rather than our own foolish desires. The Bible says…
Proverbs
16 ( World English
Bible )
[25]
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to
death.
Job
8 ( WEB )
[11]
”Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without
water? [12] While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it
withers before any other reed. [13] So are the paths of all who
forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, [14] Whose
confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.
Matthew
7 ( WEB )
[24]
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I
will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. [25] The
rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that
house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. [26]
Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be
like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. [27] The rain
came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that
house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
But,
you say, look at that man – he is prosperous and healthy; he
doesn’t need God. Really; do you actually think that he will live
forever? Ultimately, we all die- of something. Why not learn to think
about more than just what you can understand by just using your
senses? There really is more to life than what the human mind can
comprehend. Jesus’ words of Matthew 7 make sense, for they
transcend time and culture. A life lived with (and in obedience to)
God is the only one that endures, because it survives beyond the
grave. Think: are you trusting in a spider’s web or God? Only you
can answer that question.