Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
James 4:13-14
This morning I attended one of the most difficult funerals I’ve ever had to attend in my life. She was a 23yo daughter of a former mentor and pastor of mine. She was loving, talented, spirited, intelligent, humble, friendly and godly in many ways. She was taken from us far too soon. It was a painful reminder that our lives here on earth are like mist, here today and gone tomorrow. While so many of us painfully toil away for the strife of profit, fame, and glory, we know we won’t take any of those things with us when we leave this earth. If you are anything like me and believe in eternal life, you know that the only two things we will take with us after we die are our faith in God and relationships with people. This is why Jesus said that the greatest commandment is this: to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
–Jim Elliot
