26/09/2022
The average Christian today who understands that there is a bigger reason for being here; distraction abounds. In the past there were
things that wrestle with men and women of God, some like David escaped the snare and others like Saul fell woefully. Today there are even more and more alluring things that the prince of this world has innovated to get us busy and distracted.
David by his prophetic nature and Solomon in his wisdom describe these things as vanity. Vanity in its different shade whether tangible or intangible can be anything whose composition is not from divine life. In others words, as long as it is not divine then it is vain.
The problem with vanity is not with vanity itself but its hold on the children of men. Take for example money; money holds no value in the realm of the Divine, in fact it is nothing to them. However, the fact remains that we as may need money to transact in this world where we live in. With the invention of money and the power of what it can do is also a its pool on the soul of man. So much that a man can for most of his life spend all the attention that there is on how to acquire money; instead of seeking to trap the Divine nature.
Our falling nature as humans has brought us under the power of vanity hence we by default, behold, admire and gaze on it. The solution to this problem is not to pretend as though vanities does not exist or to deny its alluring power. But to cry to God like David "turn my eyes from vanity" if we can in sincerity pray those words, to God, the Lord will then begin to answer our prayers by showing and revealing to us things of the Divine (Ps 119:37). Only in the face of the Divine does vanity loose its grip on us. So much that we stop beholding vanity and start beholding the image of the glory of God which is in the face of Jesus (2 Cor 3:18).
