Ecclesiastes 4: 13 – 14 | NKJV
“Better a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more, for he comes out of prison to be king, although he was born poor in his kingdom.”
Ecclesiastes 4: 13 – 14 | MSG
“A poor youngster with some wisdom is better off than an old but foolish king who doesn’t know which end is up. I saw a youth just like this start with nothing and go from rags to riches.”
Beloved,
There are two personalities here: a young-wise man and an old-foolish man. The problem with the old man is not his old age but his foolishness. The young man on the other hand, although he had things rough at the beginning, with wisdom, he was able to pull himself up from the bondage around him. He got out of the prison of misinformation, the prison of peer pressure, the prison of foolishness and that of every other inhibiting factor. He used wisdom to gain ascendancy and became a king!
How did he do it? What did he do? How was his life transformed? The Message Bible said, the man started “With nothing and grew ‘from rags to riches.” This young man must have subscribed to intelligence that made him grow. Regardless of what others have said about you, you can rise from rags to riches.
What should you do? You need to subscribe to certain spiritual intelligence to get this done. It is not going to come cheap, but it is doable. The young man in the above scripture is a youth, just like you and me. He was once behind bars, but he subscribed to a spiritual intelligence that elevated him from the prison to the palace.
I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace.
I call you BLESSED. I call you NATIONS.
