Ablaze with Eternity

We have often heard the saying, "Life is short". And truly it is. The Bible describes it as a vapor--and David Waller illustrates it using wooden yardsticks. But that fact alone doesn't motivate. Wisdom looks at this short life from the lengthy and limitless perspective of eternity.

Taking eternity into account changes things. Naturally it can be easy to forget about eternity, focusing instead on our own life and the time we assume is ours. "Numbering our days" enables us to stand back and glimpse the "mosaic" God has been creating from the beginning of time.

God prepares us for the unexpected. Julie Willersdorf attests to this in her testimony she tells to Bob Newhouse. Julie’s husband, Ian, collapsed from a heart attack while working.

Sometimes life’s greatest treasures, after coming within our reach, will be thrown away forever because of our shortsightedness.