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This week’s Devotional Topic
A VAPOR
I’ve heard some say that they are glad that God does not let us know what’s going to happen ‘cause it would scare them to death. We don’t know the future and even concerning how long we might live. We don’t know what tomorrow may bring. Oh sure, we what we intend to do and to be, but a thousand things may happen to keep us from that. We are not sure of life itself, since it is but as a vapor, something in appearance, but nothing solid or certain. We can discern the hour and minute of the sunrise and the sun set tomorrow, but we cannot be certain time of a vapor dissipating, being scattered, evaporating. That is a very appropriate example of our life: it appears for a relatively short time, and then vanishes from this world. And since there is a life that will continue in another world; we should do what we can now to prepare for eternity to come. As the old adage states: only one life twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
James 4:13-15 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. “My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness. It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.”
John 9:4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
God help us to keep this perspective. To keep our minds on things above, not of this world. That we will work for your kingdom while we can, until we see You face to face. Amen.
This week’s Scripture:
Psalm 90:3-6,12; James 4:13-15; Job 14:1,2; I John 2:15-17; Psalm 102:25-27; Isaiah 1:18; 44:22; Proverbs 16:9; Jeremiah 10:23; James 1:2-5; John 9:4 and Matthew 6:19-21
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