I applied my heart to know, to search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things, to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness. (Ecclesiastes 7:25)

Seeking The Right Answers

God created man to be inquisitive, asking questions, seeking what is beyond the horizon, and investigating the unknown. It is in the nature of man to know more about his world. He is driven to discover greater meanings in life and understand the whys of things in life. Only man has the ability to formulate knowledge that separates him from the animal world. A monkey can ride a bicycle, but only a human can build one. Animals do not have a moral conscience. All men have a moral conscience. What separates man from animals is the knowledge of right and wrong.

From the beginning of time, man has been a free moral agent. God gave Adam and Eve a choice in the Garden of Eden about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He commanded them not to eat its fruit, but they disobeyed His word. God removed them from the garden and gave them a law to live by to find righteousness. There has never been a time in the history of the world that man has known and recognized law. What has challenged the heart of man is whether he needed to seek the wisdom of God. From the earliest days, men began to call upon the name of the Lord. When the days of Noah came, men had stopped calling on the name of the Lord and filled their lives with foolishness and madness. God destroyed all life on earth, with the exception of Noah and his family (eight people).

The difference between a righteous man and a fool is what they seek in life. A wise man will seek the wisdom of what life is all about. Fools follow the senseless carnal pleasures that lead to destruction. Wise men commit themselves to understanding, learning, and searching for wisdom and truth from the Creator. That knowledge also affirms the foolishness of following the pleasures of life. Wisdom is a two-edged sword. It grants the knowledge of truth and the stupidity of an evil fool. True wisdom is not found in the human dogmas of men. God created man and gave him His word to guide, protect, and help him find eternal life. A fool rejects God and tries to find happiness in his own wisdom.

A wise man will decide to learn everything there is to know about what life has to offer from the view of God. In this process, the wisdom of folly is exposed for the senseless pursuits of worldly pleasures. Wisdom then guards the heart from those things that are vanity. God made man with a purpose and gave him the knowledge he needed to fulfill that purpose. Only when a man surrenders his will to the purpose of God will he find true worth and happiness. The answers to life can only be found in the word of God. Any other pursuit is vanity and foolishness.