Saturday, March 13, 2010

"That I may know" (Psalm 39:4)

Saturday, March 13, 2010 | Posted by Alan | Edit Post
I dare say we scarcely consider how frail life truly is. We are more apt to be like the rich man in Luke 12 who vainly trusted that fulness of days are guaranteed. Jesus regarded him as a fool who knew not that the very night ahead he would be visited by death and then what would follow. W e live as though many days are promised! However, "Man that born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." (Job 14:1)

Likewise, "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." (James 4:14) There is not one who by some resource of self may escape the reality of the frailty of life. Perhaps loss of one close to you in recent days has served as a reminder of this truth. In light of this "vapour" which is life, how sad to watch so much labor of men, and to what end? "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36) Our days are numbered, our end is marked! What shall be in the hereafter? That Men May Know

1 comments:

jgaddy said...

Very challenging...

March 15, 2010 at 2:10 PM

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