What Am I Doing with My Life…
The eternal question. At least it feels eternal, as I come to the first full year after graduation. Moan moan moan whine whine whine I’m fine. I’m still encouraged by the stories of how other people got started and succeeded, even stories from Top Inventions on NHK. (Yeah, I do enjoy NHK, better than US news to be honest no offense.) In yesterday’s show it took the two featured inventors months and years through challenges and problems to become . . . successful artisans/businessmen, I guess.
I suppose I don’t have much to say in this post 🙁 , but what I do know is 1) I can’t function as the human being I’m made to be without working on various projects, and 2) I have to wrestle (or wrastle, as a teacher of mine would say) with the idea that success is living a life of faith, not material prosperity. King Solomon shows that. He was the wisest and richest man who ever lived and who ever will live. 1 Kings “spills the tea” on Solomon’s life there. He had 1000 women (wives+concubines), enormous wealth, and famous wisdom. His workers were all well cared for, as the Queen of Sheba witnessed. The Phineas and Ferb episode Thaddeus and Thor is a good example of what the Queen of Sheba’s response was like. (0:21 on)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJMjCjkMSAQ
Anyhow, even with all that grandeur, Solomon is famous for his fall. Early on in his reign, he took an Egyptian princess as his wife and accumulated many horses and chariots, both of which were explicitly forbidden in the law of Moses. God warned the foreign wives would lead the king’s heart astray, and it did. Solomon worked on the Temple and his own palace for a total of 20 years, and afterward worship to God became an obligation rather than an act of joy. His heart turned away, and he set up idols in the land. God had come to Solomon twice with what would happen if he did or did not follow Him, and now the consequences came. But for King David’s sake, not in Solomon’s time. Yet the kingdom would be ripped from Solomon except for one tribe…
Solomon is a good example of what not to do in life. No one could have been or will be richer and wiser than he, yet his life is ultimately a disappointment, because he didn’t love God.