Human Complexities

Devotional,  Sunday  09, February 2025

Human Complexities 

Eccl.7.29 - I discovered that God created people to be upright, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path."

God created man pure,  innocent and simple. Adam was made in the image of God without sin, spotless and really perfect just like a newborn.  We were all born beautiful and good. When we study the  nature of God and what He originally made us to be, we will like the preacher discover that we were created to be upright,  honest,  and absolutely free from wrongs.  No reason for envy, insecurity,  inferiority or superiority complex and all other complexities, competitions and insatiabilities evident now in our characters.  This wasn't how it used to be or how God wanted it to be, but sin and disobedience turned humanity into dishonest,  self centered and insatiable enigmatic being. 

The economists posit that human wants are insatiable.  The nature of man seems to have become popular for always wanting more. The rich never get satisfied with riches, the high and mighty want more and more power and authority, desperacy for more at every possible cost, this brought about corruption, radicality, and wickedness. Jeremiah said the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked,  who can know it? Jer. 17:9.  The psalmist said, "But no, all have turned away from God; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not even one" Ps.14.3. 

Simplicity and uprightness are now boring and uninteresting,  we want it tough, complex and expensive. That's when it's fun and exciting. I remember once explaining in a Bible study class how peaceful and organised heaven will be, where there will be no more violence,  sorrow,  pain, crime, thuggery,  political upheaval,  economic downturns, fraud, partying, even Church gathering,  revivals,  evangelism etc. A white professor responded, if that is how heaven is going to be, I don't want to be there. It will be too simple and boring. That all these chaos, calamities,  problems,  death,  sorrow etc make the world interesting and unpredictable. What do you think? 

Eccl.9.3 - It seems so tragic that one fate comes to all. That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.

Further Readings: Eccl.  7; Psalm 14: Matt. 5: 24- 35.

Prayers: 

Lord, help me to accept your simple will and plans for my life.  May I never complicate my life and destiny because of impatience and worldly corruption. Thank you for your loving and caring hope given without measure.  Let your grace see me through and make me a worthy servant of yours.  I ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen