Many people work hard to get the kind of life they want in this world — and many end up getting it. Some acquire wealth or celebrity status. Others achieve historical greatness. Others are content to pursue the simpler forms of satisfaction and happiness. Whatever anyone might want to pursue, the advantages of that pursuit are available. As far as “life under the sun” goes, most of it is there for the taking, whether a person acknowledges God or not. But when we die, every one of those advantages is wiped out. In their lifetimes, you might have preferred Winston Churchill’s circumstances to those of his chimney sweep, but in death, the bones of one would have looked very similar to those of the other. As Julia C. R. Dorr put it, “Grass grows at last above all graves.” ...“godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come” (1 Timothy 4:8). The only “profitable” thing that matters, then, is godliness. Every other kind of benefit will disappear at death.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:00:28 +0000
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