"Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow." (Psalm 144:4)
Every time I fly over a large body of water, I imagine opening the window of the jet and pouring out my coffee into the immense body of water below.
I imagine the time that I spend on this earth compared to eternity is no more than that cup of coffee. The incredible size of the ocean compared to one small cup of coffee is what our life is like compared to eternity.
Why then do we invest so much in temporal pursuits when we know that our investment here can have so much impact on our eternity?
It is the great paradox of human behavior, especially for Christians.
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