There will come a time
When the grave will call our name;
When the clock cannot unwind
And where guilt may still remain.
It’s where vanity upon vanity
Would exhaust our every day,
When we grasped for mere wind
And were neglectful of God’s ways.
We’re just a speck in eternity
As our breaths are counted too,
And it’s only by God’s grace
That we’re carried through and through.
We grasp for wind in selfishness
And where all greedy steps we take,
Where there’s pretences and bitterness
And where relationships are fake.
And it’s where there’s unforgiveness
As we go through the motions too,
Concealing our true feelings
And revealing what’s not true.
We grasp for wind when vanity
Promotes the foolish things we do,
Where there’s no place for repentance –
That instigates a life made new.
Death is a sober reminder
That each second that we spend,
Wealth can’t buy us extra time
And our life it won’t extend.
Because God is in total control
As He alone unfolds our seasons,
And that every test and trial
Is to refine with a deep reason.
He will strengthen as He guides
As we stop grasping for the wind,
And instead reach out for the Son
Who can transform our soul within.
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the the labor in which I had toiled; and indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 2:11
“Again, I saw that for all toil and every skilful work a man is envied by his neighbour. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.” Ecclesiastes 4:4
“A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honour, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.” Ecclesiastes 6:2
“I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever: Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past.” Ecclesiastes 3:14-15
