I think of all the achievements and honors that I was fortunate enough to receive in my lifetime and I can in all honesty say that it is so much codswallop.
Much like Solomon I feel that anything achieved in human effort is so brazenly cheap compared to the actual blessing-relationship with the Lord.
Human praise is overstocked. It's like the end-of-the-school-year awards banquet for teens I heard about. Over a hundred kids. Everyone got at least one trophy. The sheer abundance of awards cheapened the whole affair. There was so little value that the teens told me the trophies had no worth to them.
That's the way human glory is.
It's all so much cardboard.
Give me the true gold of God's friendship any day.
