089. Life, What Is Your
089. Life, What Is Your
89 WHAT 15 YOUR LIFE?
INTRODUCTION It is interesting and profitable to study the lives of others; Longfellow said: "Lives of great men all remind us, etc." Biographies, " Who is Who," and Encyclopedias are synopses of lives. But what is your life?
I. THE BREVITY OF LIFE 1. Job says, "My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle." (Job 7:6 .) (a) Where are the companions of childhood?
(b) They remained here for only a short time.
2. Life separated from the "Tree of Life" is a brief tragedy with its sorrows and sighs.
(a) "It is as a vapor."
(b) As we get older we appreciate the rapidity of life; the mile posts pass swiftly.
(c) Only a short time till all will stand before God in judgment.
II. LIFE IS VALUABLE 1. Though short life is valuable.
(a) It is the school room of eternity. (b) It is but the seed time of eternity.
2. We are NOW sowing for eternity.
(a) What would the earth be without life? (b) The present life determines the destiny. (Luke 16:26.) Ill. LIFE’S THREE PHASES 1. What is your life RETROSPECTIVELY?
(a) What has your life been? (b) Are you satisfied with it? (c) Take an invoice. (d) Has the past been wasted? (e) Have you kept your vows as husband, wife, father, mother, child?
2. What is your life INTROSPECTIVELY?
(a) Stop and think-what are you NOW? (b) Are you what you pretend to be? (c) Are you a whited sepulcher? (Matthew 23:27.) (d) Are you big enough to face yourself? (e) Are you honest , truthful, ju st and good?
3. What is your life PROSPECTIVELY?
(a) What is your hope for the future? (b) Do you hope in money, fame or pleasure? (1 Timothy 6:17.) (c) To live is Chri st, to die is gain. (Php 1:21.) (d) How have you purposed to live in the future?