...FOR THE FORM OF THIS WORLD IS PASSING AWAY

(1Co 7:31)

(Gen 5:27) So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Can you even begin to imagine what life would be like if you were over nine-hundred years old? My guess is that you might be a bit cranky in disposition. Perhaps you would carry a distinctive odor. [Ya Think?] Both of my grand fathers were in their 70's when they died. I recall from early childhood the peculiar scent both carried. I don't mean to be crude, but they smelled fermented. One can only guess how aromatic Adam or Noah were in their final years.

After the great flood, God began to reduce the length of man's life. Man continued to be very troubling and consumed in himself. By the time that Moses led the Israelites by the hand out of Egypt, Our Father reduced our years on earth to about 120, then further reduced them; (Gen 6:3)

(Psa 90:10) As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Our piddly little 70 or 80 years wearing this flesh is nothing when compared to eternity. It is a blink, a flash of lightning. Yet, we whine and complain and grumble and fret and connive, viewing this short life through the lens called “What About Me?” We seem to think that we are God's gift to OURSELVES. How laughable. How sad.

(Jas 1:9-11) But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.

(Jas 4:14) Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

(1Jn 2:17) The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

So much of my life was wasted, chasing the lusts of Satan, and the vices of this corrupt world. What about you?  Your END-OF-LIFE alarm is sounding. Do you hear it?

(Psa 39:4) "LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.

(1Th 5:3-6) While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.

Last night I sat with and watched the very last earthly breath of a Brother-in-Arms and he died. He gave up his earthly tent to immediately be carried to the presence of He who made him, Almighty God, Christ Jesus, our Lord.

If this night becomes your very last night on this earth, in body that you wear, where will you be carried? Time is short. Make a decision. Say YES to the LORD, YES to Christ, Amen and Amen.

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?

ARE YOU SAVED?