Think about it …
I just turned sixty, but I’m not old, not within the purview of biblical thought, not when you consider my entire life as I am going to live forever. So sixty years on the planet is just a brief moment. Granted a very important moment as during this time I have received God’s gift of forgiveness and life, but still just a vapor.
- (John 3:16 ESV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
- I have believed in Jesus the Son of God.
- I will not perish.
- I do have eternal life.
And, yes, I am a little joking but not really. I embrace this still-on-Earth-but-not-far-from-Heaven perspective on life. While there is breath, there is opportunity to live for the glory of God and opportunity to speak to the glory of God with my witness and obedience.
This is not nothing; this is something!
As believers in Christ we are walking toward a future with God that is “greater than anything we can imagine.” [See below.]
(2 Corinthians 4:16–18 GW)
- 16 That is why we are not discouraged. Though outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are renewed day by day. 17 Our suffering is light and temporary and is producing for us an eternal glory that is greater than anything we can imagine. 18 We don’t look for things that can be seen but for things that can’t be seen. Things that can be seen are only temporary. But things that can’t be seen last forever.
I am merely in the final stage of my human existence on Earth, preparing to step into eternity where the time on this Earth will then appear to be a wisp, a vapor trail.
Vapor, then vapor trail …
- (Psalm 39:5 NKJV) Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
- (Psalm 39:11 NKJV) When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah
- (James 4:14 NKJV) Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Old … gracious, no. I’m going to live forever.
