You are a mist.
The Epistle of James notes
We like grass eventually wither and all our accomplishments all our glory falls, fades away to nothing.
I am told most people are born die and conduct all their lives within fifty to a hundred kilometres of where they are born. When they pass away most are commemorated with is a small grave plot in a cemetery. Their names and accomplishments eventually fading from living memory.
Our lives however do not end when our physical body dies. We continue on throughout eternity. Where we will spend that eternity however is up to us in this life.
The American evangelist Tony Campolo once noted,
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?” Tony Campolo.
If Christians are correct, and I as a Christian believe we are, we get to heaven through belief in Jesus Christ who is God incarnate.
The apostle John tells us,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. ” John 1:1-4,14,
As Christians we believe what the apostle John quotes Jesus as saying,
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6.
Christians believe what the writer of Hebrews tells us,
“In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” Hebrews 1:1-3.
If what we as Christians believe is not true we have nothing to fear with respect to eternity. For if God does not exist we have simply lived a good life.
If on the other hand we are right then the implications for those who do not believe have eternal implications.
Please think about it.
The Epistle of James notes
“Why, 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
Isaiah the Prophet stated,
“A voice says, “Cry out.”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the LORD blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:6-8.
If you think about it what James is saying is true. We are a mist. We are like the prophet Isaiah said grass. All the glory of mankind is like the flower of the field.We like grass eventually wither and all our accomplishments all our glory falls, fades away to nothing.
I am told most people are born die and conduct all their lives within fifty to a hundred kilometres of where they are born. When they pass away most are commemorated with is a small grave plot in a cemetery. Their names and accomplishments eventually fading from living memory.
Our lives however do not end when our physical body dies. We continue on throughout eternity. Where we will spend that eternity however is up to us in this life.
The American evangelist Tony Campolo once noted,
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?” Tony Campolo.
If Christians are correct, and I as a Christian believe we are, we get to heaven through belief in Jesus Christ who is God incarnate.
The apostle John tells us,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. ” John 1:1-4,14,
As Christians we believe what the apostle John quotes Jesus as saying,
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6.
Christians believe what the writer of Hebrews tells us,
“In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” Hebrews 1:1-3.
If what we as Christians believe is not true we have nothing to fear with respect to eternity. For if God does not exist we have simply lived a good life.
If on the other hand we are right then the implications for those who do not believe have eternal implications.
Please think about it.
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