Earlier days of me, probably 30 years old
Everyday I walked in the garden. There were flowers and leaves and fruits, and even bird's nest now. I saw the flowers withered and yellow leaves too. The flowers are so transient. Beauty too are transient. The rose cactus flowers or the seven stars needle flowers, and most of the flowers, open only for a day and wither the next day! I saw dead flowers on the floor, how wasted they are. Yet the flowers dropped, fruits are formed.
What is life? We come to the earth and no one teach me what is life. But we can see and learn from our surroundings. Jesus wants us to choose spiritual life. He assures us, "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing" (John 6:63). What is the most important thing in life? What is even more important than food, drink, clothes, and a place to stay? What is more important than education and a job? Most of us value these highly. Yet they help life only during our stay in this fleshly body-- which is all too brief!
Show me, O Lord, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath (Psalm 39:4-5)
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes (James 4:13,14)
Just like my father. He too was young before, got married, had children and then aged, got sick and he left my mum and the children and grandchildren. The living ones will be heartbroken at the loss. The dead will be gone forever. "The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it" (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. (1 John 2:17)
Fleshly life is brief and fading. God's life is the opposite -- always bright, always whole, always fresh, never ending. Fleshly birth, by its very nature, can never be good enough for God's kingdom. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. (1 Corinthians 15:50)
Believe in Jesus. Turn to Jesus for forgiveness of sins and Follow Him.
He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die (John 11:25-26)
What others hopelessly call 'death' becomes our doorway into eternal happiness.
The one who welcome us home is our Creator. He is our Father . He invites you and me to become children of God -- children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God (John 1:12,13).
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