Job 11:17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
The world saw repeated images on television and newspapers last week of the terrible end to the life of the Libyan dictator Gadaffi. Though for a long time, his age and life seemed to be glorious and triumphant, when the day of darkness fell, the end was terrible. He was found hiding in a drain pipe. While he lived, he showed no mercy to his opponents but he cried out for mercy in his last breath. But, when we trust God, even when darkness falls, it will be bright as the morning.
Scripture says that the path the righteous travel becomes brighter as they go. Our life is like a multi-stringed instrument. One by one the strings will break. Finally, we will be left with just one string- faith and trust in the Living God and His Word. Like a famous violinist who continued to play with just one string as the other strings gave way, we need to keep playing on that one string. As days and weeks, and months and years roll by, we will be even closer to the Lord and the light of His presence will make our lives even more clear, bright or radiant. Yes, we too have uncertainties in our lives but we can combat a legion of uncertainties with the one certainty that Christ died in our place, to save us a miserable end and give us constantly hope of new beginnings.
My history professor back in college used to say," Better a moment of crowded glory than an age without a name." He could not have been more wrong. Our entire age would have the name of Jesus Christ writ large across it. Every moment we spend we seek not our own glory in vain like Gadaffi or some other self-seeking leader but we seek and delight in the glory of the Lord. Most people's egos die when they are forced to give up their positions or their claims but we let our egos die by saying," Ye go" and " You ( Lord) come and rule in our lives."
Prateep V Philip
Dear Bro. Prateep
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for your inspirational fwds.
My history professor back in college used to say," Better a moment of crowded glory than an age without a name." He could not have been more wrong. Our entire age would have the name of Jesus Christ writ large across it. Every moment we spend we seek not our own glory in vain like some other self-seeking leader but we seek and delight in the glory of the Lord.
Actually, you are also saying what the prof says. By giving a Name to the Age, we have meaning, joy & glory. Else one moment of glory is better than a nameless age. It was a quantitative & qualitative analysis.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott
Regards
Denis