“O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!” (Deut. 32:29).
Satan does not like people, especially the young who are on the threshold of life, to think about death. He offers to all a multitude of varying attractions to keep them from looking ahead. But our God desires that all should be wise with that true wisdom which does not simply take everything at its face value, but weighs it in the light of eternity.
Two worlds claim the attention of all, especially those who are starting the journey of life. The first is the world around us, of which Satan is morally the god and prince, with its alluring tales of ambition and progress, religious and otherwise, but which, in spite of all its fair appearance, is yet spoken of in Scripture as “this present evil world.” The second is the world of which Christ is the Head and Center, with its glorious and incorruptible future, but involving a pathway of present trial and suffering to reach it (Heb. 11:10,13).
Gems From My Reading (adapted)