A Coherent Whole or an Incoherent, Meaningless, Tangled Mess

It seems as if the existence of every person is experienced in one of two ways. They do not discover life’s true purpose because of foolishness and a lack of devotion to God; there is no coherence in all the things they encounter on their way.

On the other hand, we discover the coherence through God’s wisdom, which briefly expressed is this: 1) God is rich in everything that is good. 2) Mankind is poor in these good things. 3) I am God’s happy servant whose sole ministry and great joy is to draw living water from God’s brook, which is always full, sharing it with everyone who wants to receive it.

Through this true wisdom and goodness all ifs and buts and whys, all problems and complexes, all disappointments and all offenses fall away.

Regardless of what I encounter, whatever each single person says and does, this one thing will forever remain the same for me: I will joyfully draw from this inexhaustible fountain to give to everyone.

God is rich. This does not change. The natural man is poor; he requires all kinds of good things. This does not change.

I am His happy servant (steward) who distributes. This does not change either because it is good to do the good. It gives you a taste for more. Wisdom likes to do the good. She prospers as a result of it. Wisdom is far too prudent to anticipate finding water in broken, dry cisterns.

People expect to find the good in a man without God’s wisdom; therefore they are deeply disappointed, wounded, hurt, discouraged, in despair, and confused. Then they are truly fools, and the whole thing manifests itself as an incessant seething witches’ brew. They usually have different ideas and ideals and opinions that they defend. But after a while, they admit that all this is untenable. It fails and breaks. Something is wrong.

It is in truth as it is written: “For vain is the help of man.” Ps. 60:11. It is also written in the epistle of James that “every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights . . . .” Jas. 1:17.

The average elderly person in this world has become wise in the wisdom of this world. His wisdom is that he has ceased hoping and believing in anything that man can offer; he has ceased searching for living water in their broken cisterns. He has ceased fighting for anything and contending for anything. He is familiar with the fact that everything in man is vain and failing. He has given up and has become quiet and still.

He has ceased vainly searching for water in broken cisterns, yet he has not discovered the fountain of living water.

If he had discovered it, he would have possessed God’s wisdom and would have been fervently occupied bringing healing from God unceasingly to all who want to receive it.