The Wind

Ecclesiates 4:4

4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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'A chasing after the wind', is used as a saying multiple time by the author of Ecclesiastes. I in my understanding from the hospel of Truth, can say the author of Ecclesiastes was more right than they could know in the wealth of knowledge they had. 

The wind is a good metaphor for Satan. The Master of this world, whom leads mankind to do his will, by tempting them into reactions, choices. We 'chase after the wind', because it was placed in front of us. Earlier even in Ecclesiastes, the author acknowledges this understanding, saying;

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Ecclesiastes 1:8
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All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

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Our senses rule us, and this is how mankind in it's spiritual blindness is led. We react to what is placed in front of us. And it is by those reactions, those choices, that we do the will of the great deciever. We honor ourselves, and in doing so, we honor the will of the one who puts what is in front of us; there to lead us by it. This puts a very clear and concise reasoning into the command to 'deny our selves'.

So then what can be asked is, what is there beyond our reactions, beyond choices we make? And the answer is acts of faith instead of instinct. Denying self in a holy sense is called self control. We put ourselves aside, in order to have the truth, the spiritual truth, act through us in holy ways. This is the holiness that Christ Jesus called us to be of. (Notice I wrote 'be of', not simply 'be').

We are imperfect and corrupted, but when we deny our selves, what is actually perfect, which is the Spirit of Truth, it can act through us. That is holiness. So what is there beyond our reactions to what is placed in front of us? Holiness can instead come through us. Happiness, wealth, properity and influence...all are of the times before Christ Jesus. The Father allowed all nations to do there own thing:

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Acts 14:16 16 In the past, he let all nations go their own way.

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You will notice corrupted ministries that in thier blindness attempt to combine the times before the Truth came, with the gospel the Truth brought. The contradictions are obvious to those who carry the Truth forward, instead of attempting to honor two masters.

The world according to the Prophets and according to the ministry of John the Baptist, was a very different place. It was the Messiah whom fulfilled the prophesy of the prophets he sent, and it was John the Baptist who paved the way for the gospel of truth. Both the Prophets and John ministered repentance and denial of self, encouraging believers to not rely on tradiotional cleansings, but to instead go further and deny themselves.

The children of the world chase after the wind. Everyone reading this came from that also. We have only had very few years to develop away from what we otherwise led by. Even as the disciples walked with Jesus, there was reactions of doubt, denial, anger, loss of interest, and even as far as hatred and lies. The Father sent His only begotten Son to be the final sacrifice for the sins of all mankind, so we could step our of ourselves, out of the wind, and instead allow holiness, eternal life, to supply perfect love. We were meant to become the children of God, not just mist that returns into itself.

Fear God. Repent.