The Brevity of Life
Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
James 4:13-14
It happens daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. We plan. We schedule events, meetings or vacations in our computer or on our calendar. We say we will do this or that tomorrow, we will go here or there next week or next month. All the while assuming we have unlimited time.
The truth is that we do not know what our life will be like tomorrow! In a tangible way we have seen how our lives have been abruptly altered and even halted do to a pandemic in 2020-2021. Our life is compared to the morning fog or mist. Each of us have seen what that looks like—it is there for a short time, the sun rises and it soon disappears. The fog or mist vanishes quickly.
So is your life! Take today. Live in today. You were awakened today. Breath was breathed into your body for another morning. However, you do not know what this evening will bring in your life. Some will wake up with a spouse and go to bed this evening alone. Some will wake up playing with their child and go to bed this evening childless. Some will wake up with a parent and go to bed that evening without a parent. Some will wake up with their life and go out into eternity by this evening.
Life is like a vapor, a fog or a mist. It is short. It is fragile. It is brief in the span of your eternity. It’s been said: “Life on earth will soon pass—only what counts for Christ will last.” Think about and live your life in the span of eternity. Live your life with the end in mind and leave a legacy that will far out live you.
Love God, Love People, Live Sent!
Be Worth Being,
Kevin
Kevin Burrell has worked in professional baseball as both a player and MLB scout for the past 43 years, and currently serves as an area scouting supervisor. Kevin was drafted in the 1st round of the 1981 free agent amateur draft (25th selection overall), and played ten years of professional baseball with four different organizations. He and his wife, Valerie, live in Sharpsburg, Ga.
