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“For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14).
On a country road near our home, a young man who was only 19 years old was killed in a car crash last year (2023). Families and friends often put flowers and possibly a cross at the site where someone is killed, but this young man’s family did much more than that. They erected a box with solar lights in it, so that those lights are on every night, even in all the snow and cold of a Canadian winter. They want to remind everyone that their loved one was killed there.
We can certainly sympathize with his family and friends, but all this reminds us of the truth of our verse for today. Even if we live a full life, it is very short compared to eternity. Had that young man given any thought as to where he would spend eternity? We do not know, but it is too late for him to think about that now. But for those of us who are still alive, and able to think about eternity, how important it is to know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and to be sure that whatever happens to us, we will go to be with Him!
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