Friday, 8 May 2015

Where

Where

Where are the people?
Where?

Are they but shadows in the mall?
Are they?

Are they shadows in time,
Shadows wandering looking for the latest trinkets, bobbles or beads.

What is life?
What?

Is life but a wisp of smoke carried in the air?
A wisp in the eternal ether 

Are people wisps of smoke?

What of man’s or woman’s! accomplishments?
What of them?

Is the sum total of all ones life simply a pile of shinny tin, brass, and wood?
Is that life?

Is life simply a cacophony of sounds travelling through endless time?
Is it?

Or 

Is a life.
Yours and mine more?

Is it a divine opera?
An opera played out on a high mesa 

A stage suspended between heaven and hell.
Are we as Shakespear said, simply actors?

I believe
Life is an opera played out before God.
On a high mesa between heaven and hell.

We are but actors in a play?
Actors awaiting the final curtain call sending us to eternity?
Are you ready for the final curtain call?
Are you?

What is the sum total of your life?
What?

What will “they” say about you as you pass on?
What will God say?

The Psalmist wrote

“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. 
                                                 Psalms 39:4,5

Jesus said,
‘Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. 
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, 
I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.’ 
                                                               Revelations 3:20
The Apostle Paul wrote,
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—
and this not from yourselves, 
it is the gift of God— 
Ephesians 2:8

The writer of Hebrews wrote, 
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for 
and certain of what we do not see...
And without faith it is impossible to please God, 
because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists 
and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
                                                                                        Hebrews 11:1,6

“Jesus answered,
“I am the way and the truth and the life. 
No one comes to the Father 
except through me.”
 John 14:6

Where will you spend eternity?

Will you accept Jesus Christ into your heart and life today?
Will you pray.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I recognize that Jesus is your one and only Son.
That he came to earth to die for my sins.
I confess I am a sinner and that I fall short of what you want for my life.
Please forgive me of my sins and come into my life.
That I may spend eternity with you

                                      In Jesus name I pray
                                                   Amen.

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