Life is Too Long for That

May you live all the days of your life. ~Jonathan Swift

The sentiments expressed in this picture are quite common...Life is Short so either do ______ or don't do ______. Here is the ironic rub...it is not that life is too short, it is instead too long, to not treat each moment as momentous. For eternity invades the everyday, every decision, everything.

When this world becomes the sole focus, our hearts begin to ache and desperation sets in. We fear losing what we know we cannot keep. First, our lives, and then all else.

If we have an eternal perspective, it certainly gives us the power and the purpose to not fritter away our days or worse. Much sin is borne out of a desperate sense to get all we can as fast as we can, by whatever means possible. I think that is what Jesus is getting at when he says what shall it profit an a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul. To trade that which is temporal for that which is eternal.

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