Glitz & Glam

Possibly a random thought .. I know .. but as i was watching the Academy Awards last night i couldn’t help but thinking about a few things. How fleeting life is .. how things come & go .. how time is spent .. and then its gone ..

Sure we watch events like this and think of all the beautiful dresses we saw and wonder what it might be like to live such an extravagant life like that .. but then you get to the part in the Oscars where they honor those who have died in the film industry over the year .. and then i started to wonder .. did everything they invested their lives into all matter?

All those faces i saw flashing across the screen are now facing a bigger question .. what did they live for? Strive after? Put their time money and effort into? Was it worth it? Because they are now meeting Jesus and the King of Kings. Don’t get me wrong i get that some of those people could have been in the industry and sold out for Jesus .. but what about those that weren’t? It just gave me a slight reality check. Look at these verses that remind us how short our lives really are:

 

“Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.” Psalm 144:4

“They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.” Job 14:2

 

Which led me to these verses of encouragement that i should live for God in my youth .. not wait till i am older .. wiser .. have more of life figured out persay. But life is fleeting, and i need to seize the day .. Carpe Diem!

“You who are young, be happy while you are young,
and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.
Follow the ways of your heart
and whatever your eyes see,
but know that for all these things
God will bring you into judgment.
So then, banish anxiety from your heart
and cast off the troubles of your body,
for youth and vigor are meaningless.”
-Ecclessiastes 11:9-10

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