Spiritual-Social-Perspectives
Spirituality is concerned with the fruit of the Spirit: "Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23. Summed up in the Golden Rule according to Jesus Christ in other words, which means to endure something with another person, to put ourselves in somebody else’s shoes, to feel their pain as though it were our own, and to enter generously into their point of view. Finally, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatever, to carry out that pain on someone else. On the other hand, social perspective stresses the broader contexts in which people live by looking at individuals’ social location, jobs, income, education, gender, race ethnicity, and age. Considering external influences and people’s experiences which are internalized and become part of a person’s thinking and motivations. Therefore, for a spiritual social perspective to have real meaning, it must be based on a life of relationship built on "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."
TRYING TO CATCH THE WIND
It is very sad that people leave the world just as they came. So what does a person gain from "trying to catch the wind"? They only get days that are filled with unhappiness, sadness and sorrow. In the end, they are troubled, sick and angry.
— Ecclesiastes 5:16-17.
What does "trying to catch the wind" mean? It means that someone tries to catch something that cannot be caught. You can't catch the wind. You can't grasp hold of it and control it. People that try to catch the wind are trying to acquire something on a permanent basis that can't be acquired on a permanent basis. The things of this world are a good example. Some people live to acquire and accomplish things, but things have a way of slipping through their fingers.
People who live to catch the wind, as a result, are unhappy people. They have to work hard to catch the uncatchable. They have to work hard to retain their things and their positions in this world. There's never a moment's rest, for the wind is never truly caught. It keeps blowing and you must keep chasing after it. In the end, it is nothing but trouble. In the end, it wears you out and makes you sick. In the end, there is only frustration and anger.
Even if you could catch the wind during your lifetime you lose it when you die. The wind can't be taken with you. Job said, '"When I was born into this world, I was naked and had nothing. When I die and leave this world, I will be naked and have nothing"' (Job 1:21). It is a sad thing when people who live to catch the wind depart from this earth. They leave the same way they came in. They leave without having achieved their goal.
If trying to catch the wind is a futile endeavor, what should a person do in life? What will lead to happiness, instead of sadness and sorrow? According to King Solomon, the author of Ecclesiastes, the "most important thing a person can do is to respect God and obey his commands" (Ecclesiastes 12:13). The trouble with wind-chasers is that they look down to the transient things of this world for happiness and fulfillment instead of looking up to the eternal God of heaven and earth. Things come and go, but God remains forever.
If you live to love and serve God, you will never lose what you have gained for your efforts.
