Life is fleeting
Isaiah the prophet wrote,
“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.
General George Patton one of the greatest American generals of all time is reported to have said,
"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honour of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments.
The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses.
A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting." Gen. George C. Patton.
Life is fleeting. We live for a handful of years then pass on. All our possessions going into the hands of others. All our accomplishments eventually forgotten.
I believe it is on the monument to the unknown soldier, a soldier that represents all dead soldiers they were unable to identify, that the words “Known only to God” are written.
One day that will be our fate. One day we will be laid to rest. Initially we will be remembered by family and friends. But as the years pass on our names and all we did no matter how important or great an achievement will be lost to time. Such is life.
That being said we will however be known to God. The question is will you be spending eternity with God?
John’s gospel quotes Jesus speaking of himself as giving us all a choice when he said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”. John 3:16-18
The apostle John speaking of Jesus states,
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” John 1:12,13.
The choice thus is yours.
Please think about it.
Isaiah the prophet wrote,
“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.
General George Patton one of the greatest American generals of all time is reported to have said,
"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honour of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments.
The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses.
A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting." Gen. George C. Patton.
Life is fleeting. We live for a handful of years then pass on. All our possessions going into the hands of others. All our accomplishments eventually forgotten.
I believe it is on the monument to the unknown soldier, a soldier that represents all dead soldiers they were unable to identify, that the words “Known only to God” are written.
One day that will be our fate. One day we will be laid to rest. Initially we will be remembered by family and friends. But as the years pass on our names and all we did no matter how important or great an achievement will be lost to time. Such is life.
That being said we will however be known to God. The question is will you be spending eternity with God?
John’s gospel quotes Jesus speaking of himself as giving us all a choice when he said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”. John 3:16-18
The apostle John speaking of Jesus states,
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” John 1:12,13.
The choice thus is yours.
Please think about it.
