Wearisome Wisdom

“The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them…Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?” (Proverbs 20:12,24).  “The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing… I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit” (Ecclesiastes 1:8,14).  “The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19). 

There is a wisdom that transcends

The hearing ear and seeing eye.

The wisdom of this world ends

In ignorance when one will die. 

Though God has made our senses well,

They never can be satisfied,

Nor by perception can they quell

The doubts that loom when one has died. 

The Lord our God will give us vision

Exceeding what our eyes can see,

So we may make a wise decision

And trust Him for eternity.

The fool has no curriculum

To teach where souls are really going.

This world’s way, so wearisome,

Is ever learning, never knowing.

The world’s dogma in our schools

Demands that we must think in kind.

It’s better to be counted fools

Than led in lockstep with the blind. 

The world gives its explanation:

All things beheld beneath the sun

Evolved by vanity, vexation,

And meaningless in all that’s done.

Is not this pure insanity,

As they have willfully ignored

The truth they cloak with vanity

In order to reject the Lord?

O Lord, we thank You for the truth

That sets us free from such deceit,

So we may thereby train our youth

As arrows that will not retreat.

Lord, grant us wisdom from Your Word

To preach the Gospel of Your grace,

So weary souls may be assured

And find in You their Hiding Place.