verses read: Ecclesiastes 1:12-18
prayer: 15 minutes
Wisdom is meaningless. That is the theme of the above passage. What’s the point of chasing knowledge? What’s the point of having so much wisdom if at the end of it all, it is all meaningless. A lot of double meaning and consequences for me when I read this passage. If you translate it to Greek it will become clear. But well, life has to move on.
Spend practically the whole of yesterday sleeping. Due to the overnight marathon and early morning meeting; my body was quite exhausted. Anyway, managed to have a short chat with Ber yesterday night. Yup, they’ve reached safely. I’m glad. Will be praying for them for everyday that they are there.
School is starting really soon. Have to get work on my thesis re-started or A/P Leung will have my blood. Going to move on and find some meaning to all the wisdom that I’ve painfully acquired over the years. Will God grant me Wisdom again? I wish He would; but that’s just wishful thinking.
Today is 6 years to the day when I enlisted into the SAF. Even that doesn’t seem that long to me. Exactly 6 years ago, I was on Pulau Tekong eating lunch at the BMTC school 2 cookhouse. It was the beginning of an adventure that would last two and half years. Well, although I OOCed BMT, and was a clerk for much of NS life; and not to mention the 18 weeks of MC; NS did do some good tome I guess. To a large extent, I can really identify with the Teacher in Ecclesiastes. The overall theme of the book that everything is meaningless unless it is done with God in mind has been my mantra since NS. Nothing like the corporate world to take away pleasures of the flesh from you.
6 years. Passed so fast. And now, I’m at the brink of new life again. Will be submitting my application for NIE before school starts. Hopefully I can get through the interview, again! So strange; I wonder why I ask people, “what do they ask you during the interview?” when I’ve actually been through one myself! More than that, I’ve actually been granted a place before. The short story is that I changed courses midway through NS, from going to NIE straight to coming to NUS first then making plans later to apply again. Well, I was interviewed in March 2000, 6 years on, I still want to do this; will wait and see if the MOE will say the same.
Wisdom is meaningless? Maybe. If acquired with the wrong motivations I guess. Will God grant me Wisdom again? I wish He would; but that’s just wishful thinking. Praying for those on the other side of the world.
