Saturday, March 3, 2018

A Contrast

Lord Byron was an English poet who was born in Dover, England on January 22, 1788 and died in Missolonghi, Greece on April 19, 1824. He enjoyed success, fame, and popularity, and is reputed to be one of Britain’s greatest poets. Not long before he died, at the age of 36, he summed up his life with the following lines:

My Days are in the yellow leaf,

The fruit, the flower of life is gone:

The worm, the canker and the grief

Are mine alone!

In contrast, the Apostle Paul, at the end of his life, wrote:

“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing” (2 Timothy 4:6-8).

What would you write at the end of your life? What a vast difference when we know the Lord!