Have You Learned to Number Your Days? - Clayton D Steep - September 1984

Clayton D Steep

If not, here is why you should! A snowball in the sun. A shooting star. A firecracker that expends its in a momentary flourish of noisy brightness and then fizzles out. Such are comparisons some have drawn to describe the briefness of this earthly life. Though those analogies did not come from the Bible, they are nevertheless graphic ways to express the inescapable truth that our mortal lives are temporary. The Bible does, however, contain many descriptive terms of its own to say the same thing: Our days are "swifter than a weaver's shuttle" (Job 7:6), "swifter than a runner... they pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey" (Job 9:25- 26). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library