Vanish

Proverbs 30:3

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

The last part of this verse answers the first part. The reason there is no knowledge of the Holy is because there's no learning of wisdom.

At least 53 times this word "WISDOM" is used in the book of Proverbs.

Proverbs 1:2

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

No hearing = No learning, No Learning = No understanding, No understanding = No counsel, No counsel = No receiving instruction of wisdom! 

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the Lord giveth wisdom:

Receive, Hide, Apply, Cry after Knowledge, Seek then thou shall understand and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord giveth wisdom:

That's why there's no wisdom and knowledge of the Holy. In order to understand and know someone you must have a relationship with them. I know what color my wives eyes are because I've looked into them 100's of times. I know what she likes and dislikes because I talked with her and watched her reaction. I know about her because I've taken the time to learn about her. Same is true with my lord and savior I've spent time with Him in His Word and He has spoken from it to my heart. Never touch His Word (the Bible) then it's easy to understand why one would become ignorant of Him. When one realizes that "this is the day the Lord has made" and not what you have made, then understanding is coming your way.

James said:

James 4:14

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

My vapor is almost gone and only what I've done for Christ will last. Where am I spending most of my time? If  I made a pie chart cut it up into three sections, one section entitled my or me time, one Work time and one God time. Me or my time includes everything that's not work time or God time. How would that pie chart look?

The verse reads "he know not what shall be on the morrow." Then a question is asked? "For what is your life?" Then the answer is given. " It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time." Compared to eternity my life is but a flash in the pan. Then notice how sadly it ends. "and then vanisheth away." Oh my all these things I'm doing for self all the hard work I'm doing for others, doing a great  job, making great company profits and productivity that one day no one will even remember. Grave yards are never busy, few will run by your grave sight. I go by my dads 3 or 4 times a year and I have never seen anyone there at his grave sight in the last 30 years. Never had to wait in line, never seen more than 3-cars in the the whole graveyard where more than a 1000  are buried. So it is true "vanisheth away." After I'm gone no one will ever go by my hero's grave sight but the grounds keeper and he want care. So tell me again why we spend so much of our time on things that matter not?

C.T Studd had it right when he made this quote.

“Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

Come to Poverty

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Here we read of one who drinks to the point of drunkenness. 

Webster has this to say about the word DRUNK  "Intoxicated; inebriated; overwhelmed or overpowered by spirituous liquor; stupefied or inflamed by the action of spirit on the stomach and brain. " 

A few words jumped out at me.

1- OVERPOWERED 

2- INFLAMED

Here we read of a product that will OVERPOWER you and keep you from making good decisions. Something that is INFLAMED; out of control. I understand how alcohol makes one become out of control but Solomon adds one that's an over eater in the same category. One would quickly say "one who over indulges with alcohol I understand but with food, is it not different?" One would think so, but wait if that be true how in the world does one come to weigh 500 pounds? Same way one becomes INFLAMED, over indulging. We must have food to live and we could say we use alcohol for many other reasons than sitting down and drinking a half gallon of liquor. There's alcohol in mouthwash,flavoring we use in baking or cooking, in medicine we take, and when used properly they are of great help. When missed used they will cloth us in rags. Can't work and make a living for yourself or your family when you inebriated. In the same way one can't work weighting 500 pounds. So both drunkenness as well as gluttony will without doubt cause poverty and laziness so that one becomes clothed with rags. 

Rich or Poor!

Proverbs 22:2

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

There's no difference Rich, Poor they meet together. Now think about that for a minute, we live in a proud country. What I mean  by that is the rich spend little or no time with the poor. The rich type of people live with the rich and the poor the same. The rich have nicer houses, cars, clothes, eat different types of food and so on. But you know what when you pull the riches off we are all just people. In Luke 16 we read of a rich man and a poor man they both had the same basic needs. The rich man ate from a table of fine foods he had, had prepared. The poor man eats crumbs from the ground which he begged for while his body was full of sores. To different types of people, one had plenty and one had very little. In this life it may seem important to have riches or live comfortable but as Clarence Sullivan who was a muli millionaire told me one day, God doesn't give many lots of money because they don't know how to handle it, it handles them. How true those words are! Who is most respected at Church? The one who gives much or the one who gives little? God has blessed one that they are able to give much and they do. But if  they do it for any other reason than just to give to the work of God then they missed Gods purpose. Why? Because the Lord is the maker of them both. If we have great riches or we don't  no matter what we do with them the real basic need in our life is all the same, Christ Jesus.

The beggar DIED! The rich man DIED! You and I rich or poor will DIED! And the only thing that will matter is did we except Christ Jesus as our savior.

Luke 16:22

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 

23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,

Riches make no difference in eternity unless our riches were in Christ.

Ephesians 1:7

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

That's the only riches that count.