Devotion 745

“Naked Did We Come Out Of The Womb. Naked Shall We Return To Dust”

Reference: Ecclesiastes Chapter 5

This is a sobering thought. We started in the womb as a speck of blood, came out of the womb naked, and this speck of blood is destined to return to dust, naked.

But there is another speck of blood that God sent. Through the Holy Spirit moving on Virgin Mary, this speck of blood became a man, and this blood was shed on a cross for the whole world to be clothed by this blood. To be clothed in his righteousness, to be clothed in his white robe. This is the answer to life's biggest question: is there an afterlife?

We know there is an afterlife because Jesus Christ, the blood of God, the second Adam, rose from the dead to show the whole world there is an afterlife.

Labor not into the wind, but labor to be clothed in the blood of the second Adam.

Let's read:

Ecclesiastes 5:1-15 "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. [2] Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. [3] For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. [4] When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. [5] Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. [6] Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? [7] For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. [8] If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. [9] Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. [10] He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. [11] When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? [12] The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. [13] There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. [14] But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. [15] As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand."

None of our labor will come with us into the grave. The body goes to dust. The only thing we bring with us is our faith. If our light of faith is turned off, it is total darkness. If our light of faith is turned on and placed in the blood of the second Adam, then it's a labor of endurance , a labor into eternal life.

Labour not for the things of this world.

John 6:27 "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed."

We labor for his blood and his meat that was served on the cross of Calvary by placing our light of faith exclusively in it. In death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and now in us, in the person of the Holy Spirit. In oneness: oneness in blood, in spirit, in light, oneness in word.

The call is to come unto Him, and be one with Him.

Matthew 11:28 "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Any other laboring is simply laboring into  the wind.

We continue our reading:

Ecclesiastes 5:16 "And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?"

 Laboring for the wind is life in the blood of the first Adam. It's a labor in vain.

We conclude our reading:

Ecclesiastes 5:17-20 "All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. [18] Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. [19] Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. [20] For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart."

 The gift of God is not in meat, riches, and accomplishments. The gift of God is the blood of God shed for the whole world to escape the blood of the first Adam. To be clothed in the righteousness of the second Adam.

Labor to enter into the blood of the second Adam. BELIEVE and confess Christ, the second Adam as we revealed him from the first Adam. There is only one labor worthy: it's to labor to enter in Christ!