No matter how good or how beautiful our life is here below, it is destined to pass into nonbeing. You know that sunset that you might have enjoyed last night—that radiantly beautiful display—is now forever gone. It lasted only a while.
And that beautiful person who is attractive, young, full of life, creative, joyful, will eventually age, get sick, break down, and die.
An image that comes to mind when I think of these things is the gorgeous firework that bursts open like a giant flower and then, in the twinkling of an eye, is gone forever. We are meant to encounter the life before us but everything is haunted by nonbeing.
But this is not meant to depress us; it is meant to redirect our attention precisely to the things that are “above,” to the eternity of God. Where our souls will live forever.
How are you preparing for your life in Christ today?
Lord, thank you for drawing me to what matters.
Smitten With Goodness 