“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90:10)
God is eternal, without beginning of days or end of life. But that cannot be said of mankind. We are temporary; just seventy or eighty years. We look at the daily obituaries and our hearts break over infant and toddler deaths. Then we see the few that go beyond the seventy or eighty years and rejoice that their families had them that long.
Many years ago I was having a conversation with a man who had just turned ninety. A tear trickled down his cheek as he said, “It seems like yesterday that I played on the little cabin floor. I don’t know where it’s all gone.” In a few months I preached his funeral message.
Life is soon cut off. When Pharaoh asked Jacob his age he responded, “My days are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been…” (Genesis 47:9)
Make preparation for death. Even the Son of God, the Lord Jesus died. But, He lives and is alive forever, and can give you eternal life if you will receive Him by faith.
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