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The Logical Song
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“The Logical Song” is really a misnomer. The Singer-Songwriter questions his life of mankind’s wisdom and longs for true identity for as he puts it “Who I am”? In a world ruled by the status of money, power and educational level, the thinking man considers the value of such a world and his part in it. Is what this world of man’s wisdom considers valuable really worthwhile? Is it true that he who has all the marbles wins? I think NOT, for ultimately all human beings who live will die and then what? All the things they have acquired will be given to others. After time has passed, even the very memory of their life will be forgotten, so what’s the point of life? Is it really wealth, power or intellectual attainment? Again, I think NOT!
Consider the intangible things of this life. What is true wisdom, love, knowledge and genuine life? Those who desire to understand such things will only find worthwhile answers when they humbly acknowledge their inability to comprehend and turn to God for answers.
The Bible says...
1 Corinthians 1 ( World English Bible )
18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
29 that no flesh should boast before God.
30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
31 that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
Isaiah 55 ( WEB )
6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Ecclesiastes 11 ( WEB )
11 The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
12 Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
We live in a world where all society has steadily begun to reject God and all that HE stands for. The result of this is that society has begun to crumble. Man’s wisdom is indeed foolishness and that foolishness ultimately leads to destruction.
The only true answer to “Who I am?” is found in God. The verses of Isaiah 55:6-9 and Ecclesiastes 12:13f are true. Seek God and live, for the end of the matter is that God is truly in control and eventually everyone who has ever lived will answer to HIM for their actions.
“Who I am?” is a question that defines us all. If we belong to Christ and continually acknowledge him as savior then at the judgment we will be rewarded, if not, then our “wise” choices will lead to destruction.
I choose Christ, what do you choose?