The foolishness of man is what he least understands having convinced himself of what limits him from every possible angle as perspective"
When man's made the best choice, he's chosen the wisdom from the Lord.
His continued pursuit of that same wisdom will causes him to be considered wise.
What prevents the invasion of true wisdom in any life?
Is it the simplicity of knowledge discovered within the mastery of things that have been created by the Lord?
And does it include the creation itself which truthfully acknowledges the reverence that's due the creator of ALL things?
A man will design a plane which can land on water after studying the duck make a sucessful landing.
He'll eventually manage the courage needed in order to harness the essence of the same lightning he's observed in the sky for centuries.
He'll watch ants accomplish great task, yet he can only employ such wisdom once wisdom visits as the need he hopes to overcome.
He can shape theory with all that he presently understands, yet his own consideration as the motivating purpose towards the mastery of anything limits his vision for its greater genius that remains available.
He can spend a life time attempting to fine tune what he's already observed under the sun, yet his ignorance of the original intent behind it's mastery becomes his own limitation.
He can insist his own body can do certain things, yet to his own hurt he follows the instructions of his own limitation having lost sight of the "Why" he chooses to make the investment of himself and his time.
He can try and cheat the limitations of all that which surrounds and has mastered him, yet his master knows the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
He's able to envision the finished product except for the obstacle which lacks the results of a trust through sharing what he now knows beyond doubt.
What such a man has grown weary of, is the absence of the importance as the original cause for having pursued what he has.
His personal fears evolve into names and faces as if to say "those which look to steal away his original intent", yet what gets stolen before the original intent of anything created gets brought to fruition?
The same clouds may pass over head, yet one man will see them as an inconvenience while pursuing a tan, while another one his needs getting met prior to harvest.
He can be surrounded by enemies, yet forget being surrounded by the same wisdom which created his enemies.
He can convince himself of the importance of accuracy, yet forget the additional decimal place one space to the right of his final calculation.
He can hold conventions together with the most admired of minds known to man, yet discount the mind of the one which made all things.
His underlying plight?
The consideration concerning himself in which he holds out in the hope that he can somehow rise above it all in the end as he weighs the benefit of all that his hands have done.
Who is this man and what exactly is his greatest limitation he's yet to truthfully consider?
Whose identity does this more accurately describe?
Isa 14:1-6
The LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel
and will settle them in their own land. Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
Nations will take them and bring them to their own place.
And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD's land.
They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
On the day the LORD gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:
How the oppressor has come to an end!
How his fury has ended!
The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.
All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing. Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon exult over you and say, "Now that you have been laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down."
The grave below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you — all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones — all those who were kings over the nations.
They will all respond ,they will say to you, "You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us." All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven;I will raise my throne above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."
But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.
Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?"
All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb. But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword,those who descend to the stones of the pit.
Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people.
The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again. Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
"I will rise up against them,"declares the LORD Almighty."I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors,her offspring and descendants," declares the LORD.
"I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland;I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,"declares the LORD Almighty.
The LORD Almighty has sworn, "Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand.
I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders."
This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations. For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?
His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
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