If we count every single breath
In light of eternity,
It’s like sand between our fingers
Where just a vapour it would be.
If we register our heartbeat
With the flow it has established,
It’s like a shadow of a passerby
With a glimpse that is diminished.
And if we were to extend our DNA –
A billion miles falls short indeed,
Since our Creator is too marvellous
Where everlasting ways He sees.
And our hope and faith will echo
Into the chambers of eternity,
When this life it holds a purpose
And where depth won’t cease to be.
Like a flower in its field
All of beauty is revealed,
Here today, gone tomorrow –
When eternal life is sealed.
When Jesus walked the earth
With a mission and a ministry,
Those brief years made an impact
On life for eternity.
Like a breath and a vapour;
A leaf cascading from a tree,
Where will our spirit dwell
In the hands of eternity?
“All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the LORD endures forever.” 1 Peter 1:24-25
“Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapour. Surely every man walks about like a shadow;” Psalm 39:5-6
“For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” James 4:14
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
