A few weeks have flown by since my last posting at the start of 2008. As time will continue to fly by, I think it’s important to remember how short life really is. There are a few Scripture verses I like because they help put life into perspective with regards to time.
James
“Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
Psalm 39:5 (NIV):
“You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each man's life is but a breath.”
Selah
Pslam 103:15-16 (NIV):
15 As for man, his days are like grass,
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
Our physical lives are temporal regardless of how many years we may live. (I know I still have times when I’m waiting for something and time seems to go by really slowly. Sometimes a time period like a year seems like such a long time, but in reality, we can never recapture a moment and we can never slow down time when it seems to slip through our fingers.) However, we are also reminded that while our physical lives are temporal, our spiritual lives are eternal. The Bible promises us that we can find eternal life in Jesus Christ.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 3:23, NASB).
And this brings us to the foundation of my blog...
23 ”Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:23-24, NIV)
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