Can't help recalling my conversation with Geri yesterday. We were talking about how time flies and stuff and we can't believe how old we are suddenly. Do you really think that people who have lived to be in their forties and sixties and eighties have felt that they have lived for long?
I asked Geri if she feels that she has lived/gone-through 25 years of life. She said no (of course she's not exactly 25 on the dot yet). I asked her that because that very morning on the MRT I was imagining what it was like to be 30 years old (and that's not so far away, believe me), then I realized that when you're at a certain age, you don't really feel like you 'lived' that number of years out already.
Age just catches up on you unexpectedly. And you really don't know what is your last number.
Yes, so all those quotes they said about 'Life is Short' is right. Shakespeare was right when he said 'life was a brief candle'. The Bible is right when it said life was like grass. I guess you only really appreciate the brevity of life when you're of a certain age. Throw in multiple sudden death causes, and the likelihood of dying at the moment increases more as time goes by.
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
Wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
I don't think I'm really afraid of dying at the moment (although a gruesome death would be dreadful). Not that I have a choice. But I'm afraid of losing the people I love. Not so much now as before once I started holding on to Romans 8: 28 once I have these thoughts. Romans 8: 28 goes, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to his purpose."
God works all things out for the good of those who love Him. What a reassuring thought. Because when I can't control anything in life, I look upwards for help and am relieved that everything is in His best hands. And I'm thankful that even though my life (and the lives of those I love) is really short, God takes care of His own.
Would you be His and rest your eternal souls in His arms today? For foolish is the man who lays down treasures on earth that will rot away with time - yet neglects his eternal soul. Life is short - so focus on what really matters.
