All it takes is one visit to your doctor to put your life in perspective! Hearing you have cancer, or a terminal illness immediately helps you evaluate your life’s priorities. If you have been working feverishly to gain a new position at work or to grow your retirement investments, or to accomplish certain projects, then you may be greatly disappointed at how quickly they evaporate before you.
We live in a physical world, but what really matters in life occurs in the spiritual realm. The earth is deteriorating and will one day come to an end. Our physical bodies are wearing out. Death awaits us all. While we can ignore that reality and resist it with all our might; it is inevitable.
Some people approach death with horror, knowing they failed to set aside treasures for the life to come. Their focus was on the temporal, even though they knew it would not lost for long. At death, their life’s investments must be surrendered with nothing to show for it in the life to come.
Others wisely choose to invest their brief life in eternity. They recognize that their life on earth is fleeting and brief at best. Like a farmer who fervently collects hay while the sun still shines, so these wise people collect eternal treasures while they can. For them, death is not loss, but gain. It is a celebration of what God did through their ordinary life on earth.
Are you worried and troubled about things that will not last? Is your focus and energy consumed with activities and objects that are even now fading away? Invest your life well!