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Show "THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS" days of our years are threescore years and ten: and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is there strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we flyaway." (Psalm 90: 10) "The The oldfolks used to say emphatically, "Death is a debt we all must pay, sooner or later." The Bible put it, "And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." (Hebrews 9: 27) God is no respecter of person. The reason any of us do not die is that we never born or we are alive when Jesus comes back to get us. Some of us will live and died will be older. The promise of God, in this text, is that we will have 70 80 years. This servant here departed pushed beyond and reached the ripe ole age of 98 younger while or are some years minus three of us days. Can I remind you that life is filled with trouble, labor, and sorrow. We going to have langston Hughes are trying times in this life. There will be sickness and pain and trials and as wrote it, "And sometimes going in the dark where there ain't been no light." Sister lee faced her trials in her birth place, in Wyoming, and in Salt lake City. Those trials developed her some character and caused her to care. knowing that what she was going through would not last always. passing through time unto eternity. like David sang, "Yea, though I walk It is not the "tarrying in" but through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil lithe going" through that gains the victory in the days of our lives. Compared to eternity where we all are going, life here is temporary, short, and preparatory. God has something better in store for his children when they cooperate with Him. For when you think about life, always remember that it is the beginning of eternity. We move from this early tabernacle to another place not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. We leave what we have and take what we are to be with God. That's why Jesus is coming back. He promised to go and prepare a place for us and to come again to receive us unto Himself, She found comfort in She was a traveler " ... that where He is there joy. we shall be also. He wants us to get past the labor and sorrow to eternal |
