Blessings in the Mighty Name of Yeshua Hamashiach!
It is often true that when we’re young, we do not think about the brevity of life, but as time advances we’re prone to reflect on such matters. Wisdom calls us to live with a mind set on eternity, for at any moment, God may pluck us from this world and bring us into His presence. Before we were born, God determined all the days of our lives, as Scripture reveals, “in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them” (Psa 139:16).
It’s a sign of spiritual maturity when a believer lives in the reality of his own mortality and adopts a biblical perspective on God and eternity. Such a believer does not concern himself with the daily affairs of this world, except how he might please the Lord and show love to others (2 Cor 5:9; 1 Th 4:9). The growing Christian realizes there is no eternal value in the accumulation of wealth, nice homes or expensive cars, as these are only fuel for the great fire (2 Pet 3:10-12; Rev 21:1). This does not mean the believer can not enjoy wealth if God gives it; certainly he can (Eccl 3:12-13; 5:19-20; 9:9). Rather, the mature believer does not hold tightly to material things but walks in the truth that one life will soon be past, and only what’s done for Christ will last. It is on God and heaven that the believer must focus his thoughts and energy, for “he who confesses that there is nothing solid or stable on the earth, and yet firmly retains his hope in God, undoubtedly contemplates a happiness reserved for him elsewhere.”
Shalom
Pastor Williams