Today's readings are Ecclesiastes 12.1-14 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Eccl.+12.1-14 ) and John 11.1-16 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=John+11.1-16 ).
We often think of ourselves as more or less permanent. This is true especially of young people. Why, for many years, I remember being pretty much invincible. I had intelligence and energy sufficient to do anything. My future was unbounded. I would be able to go here, go there, do this, do that, and accomplish all manner of things for the Lord.
Something happens during the course of adult life. I'm not permanent, at least not on this earth. We see in Ecclesiastes 12 that all these things around us will wear out. They will break. The hard-working youthful and energetic people will become old. The machines we use will wear out and fall apart. Life on this earth is temporary. For that matter, this earth is temporary.
Where is our treasure? Where is our supply? Do we look to eternity in all things? Do we have an eager expectation of the life to come, in which nothing will wear out and nothing will pass away?
Lord, give us a longing for the eternal even as we serve as good stewards of the temporal.
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