We appear for such a short amount of time with so many other people.
but we will all eventually be forgotten.
Think about the billions of people that live in the world now and then think of the billions who lived in history past. Have you ever thought that each culture we study were made up of PEOPLE exactly like us
People who took craps
People who had families
People who got married
People who worked
People who had friends
People who had sex
People who ate food
Have you stopped to realize that one day our postmodern culture will be studied by people just like us?
Our lives don't really mean anything when compared to the big picture.
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.
-Psalm 103:15-16
11For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will fade away even while he goes about his business.
-James 1:11
14Why, 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.
-James 4:14
but the amazing thing is this:
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
the LORD's love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children's children-
-Psalm 103:17
God's promise to us that if we fear and obey Him He will love us FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER and we will be with Him forever and ever and ever and He knows each and every single one of us because He made us all and he loves us all the same forever and ever and ever!
The sad thing is not many people get that and so they waste their lives away chasing shadows, things that pass away and when they die they are truly forgotten because the only people who remember them are shadows like themselves.
but if GOD who is Eternal, if He KNOWS you then you have the sickest connection because once God knows you He will always know you that relationship is always there.
and it kills me how we as Christians throw that away so easily for shadows.
