Psalms 103:15-16
The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
A sadness came over my heart when I encountered this verse one morning during my quiet time.
The flowers and plants bloom and flourish, but then they wither and die too, - very like us, I thought.
The wind blows them, and then they are gone as if they had never been there - soon a new one will take their place.
Gone and forgotten.
I think that they are one of the scariest things that can ever happen to us.
We might be remembered for a while, but
How long will we be remembered?
It reminded me of what Mark Twain said in his autobiography.
It says, myriads of men left no sign that they have ever existed.
The world will lament you for hours then forget you forever... and then another myriad takes their place and copies all they did and goes along the same profitless road and vanishes as they vanished - to make room for another and another and a million other myriads to follow the same arid path through the same desert and accomplish what the first myriad and all the myriads that came after it accomplished - which is nothing!
I do not fully endorse that this statement is all true.
We are not hopelessly living because even though we are like flowers in the field, that verse there above didn't just end there.
It continues...
Psalm 103:17
But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—
Now God enters the equation.
A life without God indeed has no meaning.
The world will eventually forget us - it's inevitable.
We cannot hold on to a world that will too vanish one day and base our worth on it.
The Bible said that this world we live in is reserved for fire and destruction.
It is not meant to live forever too.
Living a life to please the world is futile.
We have to live it for the Lord, who is eternal.
Our life has to be all about Him.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
There is really a valid joy in making something, but nothing would really fill us out - if it is not done for the Lord.
We can be whoever we choose to be or do whatever we want to do.
In fact, there was a man in the Bible who did everything his heart desire.
He had everything that any man on earth could ever dream of - wealth, fame, and power.
- yet still said that life is full of vanity.
His name was King Solomon.
He pictured a man who had everything and did everything according to his pleasure - but still hated life.
Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said to myself, “Come on, let’s try pleasure. Let’s look for the ‘good things’ in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless.
We can gain the whole world yet still feel empty.
Why?
Because maybe we are pursuing things in life without eternal meaning.
I heard somewhere that there are three things that will last forever.
God, The Word of God, and our Souls.
We are designed for eternity.
God has planted eternity in human hearts.
Maybe that's why we desire not to be forgotten.
We desire to last forever, too.
Well good news is.
God will always remember us!
His love extends from eternity past to eternity future.
We might be nothing but like a breath, and our days on earth might be a fleeting shadow, but God cares for us.
He loves us.
Never will He forget us nor ever will He neglect us.
Psalm 144:3-4
LORD, what are human beings that you care for them,mere mortals that you think of them?They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
We might be forgotten by the world someday because it is not meant to stay forever, too - but not Him who is from everlasting to everlasting.
I want to end with a verse and a quote below,
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
C.T. Studd said, "Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what's done for Christ will last"
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