What Is Your Life

(#995, Imperial, 1963, 1968)
Read James 4:13-17.

 Mary Roberts Rinehart: A little work, a little sleep, a little love and its all over.

Edmund Cook: This life is a hollow bubble.

Voltaire: We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Colton: Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is Death.

Browning: Life is an empty dream.

Shakespeare: Life is a walking shadow.

R. Campbell: Life is a dusty corridor, shut at both ends.

James asks, "What is your life?" What empty commentaries the above are on the subject of the meaning of our existence.  Life can be very wonderful depending on our conception of life.

False conceptions of life.

ƒ      Life consists of things.  In this materialistic world in which we live, we measure life by what we have.  But Jesus said, "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things he possesseth" (Lk. 12:15).

ƒ      Life consists in thrills.  Young people look for thrills: dope, LSD, marijuana, riots.  Moses chose to suffer affliction with God's people rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.  There is pleasure in sin; but a life-goal of pleasure won't satisfy.  "She that liveth in pleasures is dead while she liveth."

ƒ      Life consists of theories (or knowledge).  Never has there been a day of greater knowledge.  Yet there has never been greater dissatisfaction.

The true conception of life.

See the things men desire; then see in Whom they are found.

w    Happiness, John 15:11.

w    Life, John 14:6.

w    Peace, Eph. 2:14.

w    Hope, Col. 1:27.

w    Security, Col. 3:1-4.

What is life to you?  Paul said, "For me to live is Christ."