On The Brevity Of Life!
THU EP Reflection 111920 (James 4:13 – 5:6) On the brevity of our lives: There are times when I come across words that are truly sobering. Those words can surely make us feel as if we have been struck so we can be awake and listen. They don’t beg for our attention; they have our attention! That’s the kind of words I read in today’s Epistle of James 4. Let me read it for you: “ Come now, you who say, today or tomorrow, we will go to such and such town and spend a year there, doing business and making money. Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are in a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say: If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that. ” Our life in this world is like a tiny dot in eternity. We need the right perspective here! If there are people who know well how NOT in control of life humans are, it is refugees. When you are a refugee, you know without a shadow of the doubt, that ...