I recently experienced a sobering vision-like awareness that I have absolutely nothing of this world; no wife, no children, no family, no job, no health, no friends, no home, no nothing. I am currently enjoying all these things, but I do not have any of them. They are like a vapor that will vanish away in an instant. Ownership and control is an illusion; attachment to illusion is a lie.
I can still feel this, as if I am on my deathbed, my whole life passing before me, and nothing of my temporal interests or activity in this world is of any consequence. It will all be forgotten, completely forgotten, as if it never happened. Such is the way of all who have gone before, focused on their lives so many years ago, as if they were going to live down hereforever, where are they now? What has become of their worldly ambitions? This end will be the same for all of mine.
The preacher of Ecclesiastes says, “Surely the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for the shall be many. All that is vanity.”
So, what do I have? I have God, and what he is doing in Me to transform me into his image. This is the work of God, and it will endure forever. This is what I have. This is all I have.
But many think they have a secure relationship with Jesus Christ, that he is their best buddy, including LGBTQ activists, drunkards, fornicators and adulterers. False hope in a false religion is a wonderfully powerful thing.
So very few will find the light.Even the preacher fell away, and we have no real indication that he ever found his way back.
Yet he spoke eternal truth: the days of darkness will indeed be many, dwarfing the days of this life until they are forgotten, a tiny spec in the distant past. The eyes will long for a strand of light, and there will be none. How dreadful!
Remembering eternity draws me again to ensure I am not being seduced by evil spirits, comforting me in my own damnation, as they appear to be doing for so many. The foundation of God stands sure. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but he does the will of God abides forever.
The key is, as always, Torah, the perfect revelation of Jesus Christ, exposing the enmity of all those who are rejecting any part of Torah as a manner of life, as if they are rejecting Him.
Will they come to Christ when He demanded they give up everything to follow him? When He isn’t promising prosperity in this world, but to change their heart so they delight in and keep his laws, all of His laws in Torah? How many today would be drawn to this invitation? Barely a handful?
And yet this is the Christ of the Bible, coming to save His people from their sins, from their violations of Torah, the law of His eternal kingdom.