Fast Fading Fog

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Yesterday, Kathy and I awoke to a foggy morning. Thick fog hid all but the vague outlines of trees surrounding our home. We always enjoy foggy mornings because they seem so peaceful while at the same time containing an air of mystery. It’s fun to imagine what lies out there unseen and cloaked in fog!

Our lives are like the fog. We cannot see far beyond the present. Though we often have a sense of peacefulness, and even safety, we’re sometimes reminded that this can change in a moment of time. Our detailed and sometimes boastful plans, regarding what we will accomplish today or tomorrow, can be instantly set aside by God’s irrevocable plans and purposes. God’s Word, the Bible, says:

“Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth” (Proverbs 27:1).

“Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that” (James 4:13-15).

As the fog began to fade, the landscape surrounding our home came into full view. In a similar manner, when our life on earth fades into eternity, our final destiny will come into clear view. Gone will be the hazy peacefulness that may have settled over our vaporous life. Gone will be the plans that will be irrevocably taken out of our hands. At that point it will become clear that our eternal destiny will be ruled, forever, by the almighty hand of God.

Scripture is clear.

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” ( Hebrews 9:27-28).

Dear reader: Are you so enthralled by the fog of your vaporous life, that you have failed to repent of your sins and ask God the Son, Jesus the Christ, to forgive and save you forever?

 

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