03-02-2012
Three ways to die
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Ecc 12:6
- The most elegant way which elegance is described as silver and gold. In Solomon's day rich people would hang golden's bowls with a silver cord. The bowl which would be made out of pottery and overlaid with gold, characteristic of one's life of clay and overlaid with golden years. Without removing the life cord or sustaining substance for life (the cord), the bowl drops all of a sudden and the life ends and is of no use anymore. If this was a solid bowl of gold, gold does not break apart within it's self, but is torn apart, in this case abruptly when the clay pieces separate on hitting the floor. With some people life is abruptly terminated.
- For others, their life was used to carry water, and by an accident, a slipping of the hand, a misguided calculation to where the hand was going, or misjudgment to set the picture somewhere near the spring, it is broken. A poorer person than above, being carried to get to the well spring of life many times, the water of life, ends by accident, a slipping of the hand(v.3 keepers).
- The poorest life. The wheel which was made strong, takes on the stress, the weight of life, and a spoke breaks and the wheel is lop sided, but yet tries to travel. Tries to come to a resting place. No one, but God knows how long the travel to this place is. The well of life, to drink it's last water of life. The wheel suffers as it makes it's last way. It moans and croaks. Till it becomes so damaged that there is no more strength to move on, and just sits there, at the well till the Lord says done. The person with hesitation, has no more resources to repair the wheel and just leaves it at the well. And the God of time allows time to pass for it to turn to dust.