Breathe It
Human life is described in the Bible as fleeting, only a breath or a whisper. This really hits home when you attend the funeral of a little 18 month old girl – you realise again how fragile life truly is.
As discouraged as my heart felt as I sat there looking upon the small coffin, Psalm 139 brought solace. “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” As the scripture was read, the wonderful hope dawned on me, that this little girl was held in the palm of God’s hands for everyday of her precious life. Even now, this little girl is in the loving arms of her Heavenly Father, for eternity.
For those of us on a journey with Jesus, we know that this world is not our home. We will pass away; this world will fall. Hope remains in knowing God has prepared a place for us.
In the beginning of his book, Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper writes, “you belong to God… therefore the Bible says, ‘Glorify God in your body.’ God made you for this. He died for this. He bought you for this. This is the meaning of your life.”
So, if we know real life is found in glorifying God, then why do we continue to search for comfort and identity in this world? Why does our flesh fight our soul? And why does it so often win?
Often my heart echoes the words sung by Brooke Fraser: “My comfort would prefer for me to be numb and avoid the impending birth of who I was born to become.”
We were born to know him. We were made for more than this life.
Brooke’s song continues, “For we are not long here, our time is but a breath. So we better breathe it.”
Life is fleeting and you aren’t always able to find the answers, but we are to take comfort in the hope of eternal life, in the knowledge that we were made for something more.
In Piper’s book, he tells a story of an old man who lived his entire life selfishly. As an old man, he walks to the front of a church and cries “I’ve wasted it, I’ve wasted it.” That is a tragedy, a life lived too short.
This little girl’s life was not a tragedy, but a gift. It was not a life lived too short. It was lived to the full. As I listened to the words of those that knew her and loved her, you heard of a little girl that, despite the illness that eventually took her life, brought courage and strength, faith and joy to hundreds of people. She changed the lives of more people than some would in a lifetime.
I want my life at the end of it to be like this little girl’s. That I lived to change lives and to make a difference however small those changes and differences might be.
My heart was challenged to the core that day. If we proclaim to walk in the truth of eternal hope, our lives need to follow. Like David prayed in Psalm 139, I asked the Lord to remind me of the brevity of my own life: to remind me that this life is a gift and “All [my] days [are] ordained for me.” Then to remind me of the hope of a greater life to come, of a home prepared for us in heaven. “Remind me of your purpose for my life, and not my own,” I prayed, “for I am found in you.”
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