Thoughts for another day

July 9, 2008

Today's verse: Job 10:9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Vessels of clay are we all and unto the mud someday we will go. But under the heavens, we sometimes seem bloated with imagined permanency of self, behaving as if we are the lords and masters of the universe and as if it is within our power to do all and sundry with the money we possess and the power that comes with the money. God watches it all in silence and someday, He just shuts our breath and we are gone, never more to rise.

To be honest, although we think big of ourselves, and try to do things by which we may be remembered and honored, no one remembers or bothers about us as soon as we die. As the years go by, people hardly remember and even if they do, its only when a small connection happens or on an anniversary or important date (which of course ceases to be important as time whisks past). Gradually, the connection too vanishes and our memories remain, but staring faces on a piece of paper, which someday will be cast out to be burnt as waste.

Yet to think of it, we behave as if the sun revolves because of us. Besides, there are those who feel that the world runs because of them. Then there are others who believe that they can control the destinies of men and women, only to perish as the sun peeps into another day.

If we remember how weak and temporal we are, as dew that falls on the ground in the morning and vanishes as the sun comes up, as Job does in the above Words, only then can we expect God’s Grace to shine down upon us; because only upon the humble soul will God’s countenance shine and only the lowly will He turn to exalt; if not in this world, then surely in the next.