November 2007

11.13.2007

ne Parson’s Opinion

Can you believe as I write this it is the end of October? Where has 2007 gone? Thanksgiving and Christmas will soon be upon us (Beverly knows my shirt size!).

I can’t believe we have begun our fifth year at ARBC. Where has the time gone? I suppose this is a question you ask yourself also. Tempus fugit! (Time flies!) Indeed, it does!

Life really is a mystery, isn’t it? We’re born, life has joy and heartaches, and then we die. It all goes so quickly.

My uncle Carl died this last week. I suppose this is why I am thinking about the brevity of life. I remember being told that he was quite the baseball player. Then he was drafted and went off to World War II. He never returned to baseball. Instead, he married, got a job and had a family. Now he is dead. Life really is a mystery. All the things we pour ourselves into and worry about so much quickly pass away.

I am not like Solomon in Ecclesiastes, who says, “All is vanity.” That is not where I am going with this article.

What I want to say in light of the mystery of the brevity of life is very simple. As Christians, this life has some joys which are to be enjoyed, but our Lord is the only everlasting One. He is always there. He will never disappoint (He may confound sometimes—ha!).

People will disappoint. Life will not provide all you want it to provide. And then it goes, oh, so quickly. But Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Rock of Ages. I encourage you, in the whirl of activities of life, to spend some time getting to know Him—the One who is timeless.

You think about that!
Jim

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