Life is Short

Life is short. I bet I heard that phrase about a dozen times this week in general conversations with people at work. I’ve even seen that phrase posted on Facebook a couple of times this week. I agree and I disagree with that statement. I agree that life is short, shorter for some than it is for others. I disagree that life ends after we die. The Bible is clear that life is short, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ - yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” - James 4:13-14.

What we call “life” is but merely a blip on the entire spectrum of time. We show up, and if we are lucky, live somewhere around 70 years. Some people have their lives cut shorter and even others surpass that amount of time by decades. “The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.” - Psalm 90:10.

So what is the purpose of our assumed 70 years on this earth?  Without purpose, what are we really here for?  We are created by God to glorify and praise Him, but we cannot do that until we find Him through His Son Jesus Christ. It is once we find Him that we begin to know what our purpose is here on His earth. Some people become Christians at a very young age and get to have years of praising Him and doing His work. Others don’t find Christ until later on in life.

So, even though life is relatively short, like a vapor, what we do with our lives is eternally important. We will spend eternity in one of two places: Heaven or Hell. The decision we make in this life will have an effect on our eternity. “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” - John 3:36. That wrath of God will last for all of eternity as well. Those that reject Christ do not cease to exist, they spend eternity paying for their rejection of the free gift through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. “For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10.

Have you made a decision on your eternity yet? “For he says, "In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” - 2 Corinthians 6:2.

Have a great day and God bless.