Day 6 - Life is a temporary assignment

Life is extremely brief. Robert Browning has said it well -

Just when we’re safest
There’s a sunset touch,
A fancy from a flower bell,
Someone’s death,
A chorus ending from Euripides,
And that’s enough for fifty hopes or fears,
The Grand Perhaps!

Someone has explained this striking “discoveries” of Robert Browning like this -

We spend much of our time trying to forget about God that just when we think we have got everything taken care of, all our plans are made, and we have excluded him from our thinking, then something happens to intrude.

We see a sunset, and it reminds us of the ending of life.

Or we see the beauty of a flower, and know that in a little while it will be crushed.

Or someone’s actual death occurs, and we are forced to face up to the issue of life and death.

And that, he says, arouses a bevy of hopes and fears within us which he calls, “The Grand Perhaps.”

Life on earth is a temporary assignment. When compared with eternity, it’s extremely brief! David prayed, “Lord, help me to realize how brief my time on earth will be. Help me to know that I am here for but a moment more.”