Do you see the remedy for vanity? Labor in vain, awake in vain, work in vain, anxious in vain. In each situation, the opposite of vanity is being ‘in the Lᴏʀᴅ’ in all.
How often we are caught up in busy-ness, not actively including the Lᴏʀᴅ in initiation and execution of what engages us. Big things like building a house, guarding a city or the mundane of daily routines– rising, working, resting–all either done with the Lᴏʀᴅ’s active involvement or with our passively ignoring His presence. This ignoring is deism, that thought that God created and is no longer involved, maybe not quite dead but certainly not participating in Life.
It becomes easy to miss the Lᴏʀᴅ in moments of distraction. Do we save God for the special times, ‘big’ moments when we are outside our comfort zone, the unfamiliar circumstances when we must be intentional before execution?
Life need not be so many ‘vain’ or empty moments as the Lᴏʀᴅ desires to be part of every facet of life lived in Him. Building, laboring, guarding, working, resting—the Lᴏʀᴅ desires to be Lᴏʀᴅ in all of our lives.
All day, every day. And all night as well. Please Lᴏʀᴅ.