Death

If there is no beginning and no end to time, and we are only here in this world for a finite amount of time... we truly exist here on earth for less than an instant...

Sometimes I think about death. It is always an uncomfortable feeling for me. I usually don't think about it very much. Although I know I will die some day... and that my life is statistically already over 1/4 over... its not something I think about regularly. Its really hard for me to imagine myself dead. Death seems very unnatural to me. I know others who have seen a lot of death and the idea is close to them... but personaly I have not.   I think it is important for us to occasionally think about death.  I believe this is true at least for me... as I often forget I will die someday

Here is what Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 says:

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

God is infinite we are finite... there is nothing we can add to God

 ¹⁸ I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. ¹⁹ Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. ²⁰All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. ²¹ Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

 ²² So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

I really like Ecclesiastes... it is such a good reminder for me. so often I live as if I will live forever... 

I often seek to preserve my "pride", "honor", "dignity" by hiding and concealing... I want to be invincible, I want to be affected by nothing.  I don't want others to be able to elicit anything from me.  I want total control of my self... 

This is a complete fantasy that I have created.  I am here less than an instant... and I try to hold on to my pride and invulnerability.  And yet in an instant we are gone...  The truth is we are as vulnerable as bubbles that little kids blow around that are so beautiful and  race each other in the wind... only to pop and disappear at any moment.


So Let us remember to enjoy the gifts that God has given us for the instant we are here and not let fear or pride get in the way... so we can enjoy the gift of the glorious presence of God for eternity.