Have you ever realized that the older you develop, the additional time generally seems to accelerate? When I was a kid, time appeared to crawl. Remember waiting for birthdays and Christmas?

The Bible claims life is short. In the book of John, it's called a vapor. I requested my buddies to share with me how we ought to are now living in gentle of their brevity.

"I wouldn't be able to consume hot dogs, hamburgers and corn pets everyday," claims Jonathan, 5.

If Jonathan had no regard for life's brevity, he could possibly contribute to Tag Twain's culinary view: "The main secret of achievement in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

Jonathan mightn't be the only person looking to Twain for insight. If living is short, Trey, 7, claims, "We ought to start having more pleasurable in school." Twain wrote, "I have not let my schooling interfere with my education."

Katherine, 6, seems to nature for motivation: "Since our time on Earth is small, we ought to be a great individual and be certainly one of God's flowers."

I understand a little about flowers because my spouse had 15 rose bushes in her Sacramento backyard once we met. The structure that Moses obtained from God for the making of the tabernacle included plants fashioned in a good, gold lampstand of six limbs (Exodus 37:17-18).

With the exception of the Booty shorts , the Bible uses the rose predominantly for instance of falling glory. As rapidly because the bloom roses, its wonder fades.

The Apostle Philip quoted the prophet Isaiah when he wrote, "All tissue is as grass, and all the fame of man as the flower of the grass. The lawn withers, and its flower comes away, nevertheless the Word of the Lord continues forever" (I Philip 1:24-25).

In the days when Rome ruled the entire world, conquering armies delivered from fight with shows of grabbed prisoners, booty and actually incredible animals. The conquering Roman general rode in a chariot together with his servant whispering in his hearing, "All wonder is fading."

If you intend to see light wonder, visit a nursing home. Occasionally it's hard to picture elderly people as vivid youth. They will be the first to tell you that the fame and vigor of childhood easily ends into cramps, pains and physician appointments.

By having an endless perception, the falling fame of this life do not need to be a supply of discouragement. If we have located our eternal destiny in to God's arms by relying the Master Jesus as our savior, we could truly confidence him through the difficulties of our earthly sojourn. Exactly the same Apostle Chris who claimed our bodies are like slipping flowers and withering grass wrote that we are but pilgrims passing through this life (I Chris 2:11).