Praising the God of Our Salvation
I am afraid that most of us have a very finite way of thinking about life. We put all of the emphasis on how long we will live on this earth and how much we can do while we are here. Let me just say once and for all that is a very inaccurate way to look at life. Every person who is born into this world will live forever after their birth. We will live in heaven after our earthly death if we have a personal relationship with Jesus as our Lord and Savior. We will live forever in the Lake of Fire if we have rejected God's revelation of Himself to us and Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Therefore, our perspective on life should look at things in an eternal way, not a finite way. The prophet Habakkuk knew this so very well. He expressed it perfectly in one of my favorite passages in the whole Bible. (Habakkuk 3:17,18) "Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though th...