My Life is but a Vapor

James 4:14b “What is your life?  You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”

            Lord, as I am now in my sixties, this verse has much more meaning than when I was five or ten years old.  When I was young, the 24 hours you have always given to me seemed to last much longer than they do now.  The day flies by and it’s time for bed again.  I look back over the years and they seem like months instead.  My sweetheart and I will be celebrating forty years of marriage this year, but it seems like yesterday when we said, “I do.”

            I trusted in You thirty-six years ago.  What have I accomplished for You, Lord, in that time?  You were here for only 33.5 years and You changed history!  Lord, have I touched all of the lives You have asked me to touch?  Have I shared You with the others around me as You have prompted?  I fear not.  Please forgive me and help me to do Your will in a more diligent fashion.

            This Resurrection Sunday I rejoice again that You rose from the dead and we have that resurrection power within us!  Death no longer has a hold on me or my family.  Eternity in Heaven is ours because of Your precious sacrifice!  I praise and thank You, Lord.