{"id":3822,"date":"2025-01-18T21:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2025-01-18T21:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T21:54:36","slug":"what-is-your-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/what-is-your-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bible Reading: Job 9:2-35.<\/strong>
Aim:<\/strong> To teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to the wisdom of soul winning, to teaching others God\u2019s word, and living like Christ.
Introduction: The Bible compares our life to many things. Why? So that we may realize how short our life is, and how important it is for us to number our days (ie: to plan our life)so that we have the maximum impact on the world for Christ. In order to show us how short our life is, God compares our life to several things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. A Vapour. \u201cWhereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow For what is your life? Itis even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.\u201d James 4:14.<\/strong> All our plans depend on our life continuing. But what a frail and uncertain thing our life is. Who can build any solid plans on the permanence of a vapour or a mist? A vapour is a mist that is dissipated by the rising sun. \u201cO remember that my life is wind\u2026.As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so is he that goeth down to the grave.\u201d Job 7:7,9. \u201cFor he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.\u201dPs.78:39<\/strong>
    Notice that:
    1) As a vapour or wind passes away quickly, so does the life of man.
    2) As we cannot stop a cloud or wind, so we cannot hinder the speedy motion of our days.
    3) As a cloud comes to its height and then vanishes, so does our life and our full strength.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. A Flower.<\/strong> \u201cMan that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.\u201d Job 14:1,2. \u201cFor all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. But the Word of the Lord endureth forever.\u201d I Peter 1:24,25. <\/strong>Man\u2019s life is compared to a fading flower. Many things describe a flower such as having sweet smell, beauty, variety of colour, and softness to touch. Job discusses none of these, but only of its cutting down. Note the following truths about it\u2019s cutting down:
    a)A flower is often cut down or cropped in it\u2019s budding. Many people are cut off in the flower of life by i) Natural death by sickness, or ii) Accidental death by violence, murder, road accidents etc.
    b) A flower if not cut off, soon withers away and is gone. The \u201cQueen of the Night\u201d flower blooms in one night, gives a beautiful fragrance, and is dead and withered by morning.
    c) As the owner of flowers knows best when to crop then, so God knows the best time when to crop off or take away by death any of his choice flowers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. A Swift Post.<\/strong> \u201cNow my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.\u201d Job 9:25.<\/strong>
    a) As a postman rides swiftly, in a hurry, so man\u2019s life passes away swiftly.
    b) A postman of years ago would<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n