Life and time. Two things that move on without any ability to slow them down or stop them. Despite man’s attempts to capture and harness them both, lives end and time continues to move forward. The future becomes the present and even more quickly, the present becomes the past.
As a 1991 high school graduate, I was one of only 7 in my class. Attending an extremely small Christian school in the Midwest had many perks. One being we were all extremely close, relationally, as you would expect. However, time moved on and here over thirty three years later, most of us don’t have any clue whatsoever about one another at all. Just last week, I learned that another one of my classmates passed away in September. The second already. No one called me. No one sent a message. I guess that I should have randomly seen it on social media, but I don’t really use it, so I remained ignorant. Like it or not, time changes things. It changes us.
I don’t know about your world, but people all around me are sick. It seems someone in our sphere of life has some connection to a death almost weekly now. This has been happening all year long. Friends, all humanity is like grass. We had better face it. Whether we’re 20, 80 or 51 like me. So, what remains? What does it mean when we read that the word of Yahweh endures forever? What even is it? Do we know?
Today might be a good day to start pondering upon these things, if you don’t already. Many seem to talk as though they’re invincible. Too occupied to deeply consider eternal matters. Man has always been this way. I guess we all used to feel that way, in some measure. Some of you need to turn off your phone, clear your calendar, take a quiet walk and take a sober look at your life today.
What are we doing? What will last beyond us? What of our lives has been literally built upon Father’s word that will remain?
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