Well, now that school has been out for three weeks and I have had time to reflect on the school year while accomplishing things at home, I think it’s well past time (now that I have more time) to start posting stories and snippets from my past year at school. They won’t be in any specific order, but as I think of the stories I will record them here.
God was so good to me this year and He gave me many opportunities to learn, serve, teach, and lead at school. Hopefully I can use my blog to communicate the love, joy, and peace that I experienced, the patience, kindness, and goodness with which I was encouraged, and the faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control toward which I was challenged.
Life at Faith Baptist Bible College is definitely an experience, a valuable one. There are so many things to share, just from this last year. My first year was filled with learning opportunities as I adjusted to college life at Faith and got settled into my higher-learning environment. Now I’m weathered and learned, and my year was about utilizing every opportunity God gave me to grow and help others grow. So to God be the glory for what He has done.
Day 40: Ecclesiastes 7:25-26
“I applied my heart to know, to search out wisdom and the reason of things, to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness. And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.”
Searching for the truth behind wisdom and foolishness, Solomon examines his own life in which he fulfilled to the utmost his lustly flesh by gathering to himself wife after wife and concubine after concubine. What does he conclude? “I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are fetters.”
His desires pulled him down, turned his heart away from God, and led him down a path of destruction. Yes, this was the wisest man in the world.
How much more possible is it for me today to be ensnared by these same desires? How much more possible is it for men and women today to succumb to their flesh?
What is Solomon’s conclusion? “He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.”
May I be one of those who “pleases God” in this way.
More bitter than death is the woman who snares,
The woman whose heart is a net.
The man who escapes her, how well he fares-
The man who does not has regret.
