While it is right to lament life’s brevity, we can also find in it at least 4 reasons to be glad that life is short.

One of the great sorrows of life is its brevity. This life is but a breath, a vapor, a mist that vanishes with the sun. Even the eldest among us dies too soon, for we were made to live forever. Yet, while it is right to lament life’s brevity, we can also find in it reason to rejoice. There are reasons to be glad that life is short. Here are four of them.

Because time is short, we will not sin for long. We contend against sin for as long as we live. We are saints, but sinners, people who have committed our lives to God but who still at times side with Satan. At many points the cry of every Christian is “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” Our best thoughts are still imperfect, our most noble deeds still mingled with sin. But we can be comforted with the knowledge that our time is not long. We will battle pride for only a short while


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