Ecclesiastes 3:2 (NKJV) 2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; Most of us think very little about the brevity of our lives; the limited time we have here on earth in this human skin. It is natural for us … Read more
Psalm 39:4-5 (NKJV) 4 “Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am. 5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah … Read more
James 4:13-14 (NKJV) 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for … Read more
Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. We wrote a devotional recently based on James 4:14 (life is a vapor) and Ecclesiastes 1:14 (all is vanity and grasping for the wind). In it, we asked the question, “what is life?”. In response, we had a reader … Read more
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing. I was sitting in the dentist office one day recently and the dentist was sharing how she had lost her grandfather. He had just left his house and was in an accident. He never returned home. She said, “I … Read more
Isaiah 50:7 (NKJV) 7 “For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed. We can never be sure what each new day will bring. We get emails every day from people all around the world. … Read more
James 4:14 (NKJV) 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that touch the hearts of others. I was visiting a nursing home a couple of weeks … Read more