Highest Good

On our way home from a trip, we expected the phone call: "What time ya'll gonna be home?"  This is a question parents ask their children, not the other way around.  Why do children want to know this?  They either want you to bring home food or they've made a mess and need to know how long they have to clean it up.

Do you sometimes wonder, what is best, what is good, and how do we know? Such ponderings alone cause hair to turn gray, even turn loose! Solomon writes about these things in Ecclesiastes: "And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven ..." (1:12) A man on a mission: one given knowledge, possessions, projects, and pleasures yet He still wondered: what is the highest good? His questions are the same as ours today as we do life over-and-over day-after-day so much so we almost don't need a planner because we live a "programmed" life. Perhaps the more important question is -- programmed by whom? The answer to Solomon's question is the same answer for us today: "For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight." (2:26) and "For I considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: that the righteous and wise and their works are in the hand of God." (9:1) No matter how we fill our days, no matter what committees & organizations we commit to, no matter how many degrees or how high up the corporate ladder we climb, there is a highest good. Very simply, it is a life patterned after Godly righteousness. Such a life calls others to The Father. This is what matters most. This is good. This is best. Embrace it. Live it.