BEGINNING WITH DEATH: JOB'S QUESTION

BEGINNING WITH DEATH: JOB’S QUESTION

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

   Job [CEV] 14:1-2, 14a Life is short and sorrowful for every living soul. We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish. … Will we humans live again?

   1Peter 1:24-25 The Scriptures say, "Humans wither like grass, and their glory fades like wild flowers. Grass dries up, and flowers fall to the ground. But what the Lord has said will stand forever." Our good news to you is what the Lord has said.  [Also note Heb.9:27; Jam.4:14]

  Job pointed out that life is brief at best, comparatively no more than a fleeting silhouette full of distress for every person, he posing the question “Will we live again?” (He also made it clear that he had no inclination toward his enlistment being shortened, but desired to patiently involve for his duration. 14:14b)

  Having from God’s Word answered the eternal life question many times already, I’m not so much pondering answer to Job’s question recorded in 14:14a. Today I’m considering that all individuals do contemplate this question.

  I remember thinking about this gigantic question as a young child, recollecting that it was when Grandmother Bullock died September 23, 1939, my being *3.85 years of age. (It wasn’t until early teen years that I began wondering about the other enormous question.)

  Can anyone dare claim they have never reflected on what will happen to them beginning with death?

  And what has been done with the question? Has ego-centric pleasurable living and/or life’s troubles preempted present day consideration? (Mt.13:18-23) Has the topic been shelved, filed, or stuffed as too difficult and troubling to consider? (Acts 26:27-28)

  Man individual and together can do what he will to silence the question, but even with utmost effort it remains: Will I live again?

  Hear what God says: "When the time came for me to show you favor, I heard you; when the day arrived for me to save you, I helped you. Listen! This is the hour to receive God's favor; today is the day to be saved!” (GNB 2Cor.6:2)  EBB4

*Grandson Michael was about the same exact age when his Grammy, Ann , died.