Do You Believe This?

Psalm 84-89

Reading along in the Psalms this a.m. and was crushed awake. 

“Remember what my span of life is;

For what vanity Thou has

created all the sons of men.”

89:47. 

I am sitting looking out over the Great Smoky Mountains. Each one thickly layered in fog, waiting to be painted clear by the warm summer sun.  Yesterday my wife and I hiked deep into these mountains to find our oldest son’s altar that we had built ten years ago when he went off to college.   We found the altar just as we had left it ten years hence.

God, for what vanity have You created me and mine?  These mountains will live eons on after we are dust.  Even our son’s altar will stand for centuries as his flesh will die and be accepted back to earth and eventually be absorbed into the planet and distributed to the elements. 

We are Your eternal companions, to live and to enjoy each other for when time is no more.

“Jesus told her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life.  Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.  Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die.  Do you believe this…?”       John 11:25-26

Aaron's Altar