Finger-nail clipping

A thought has been going through my mind for the past couple of weeks:

Out lives - all the years that we have to live - are just a finger-nail clipping wide - when compared to eternity.

Whatever we do, and whatever difficulties and challenges we go through now almost pale into insignificance when we consider how many years can unspool into the future.

Infinity doesn't end. It just goes on and on and on and on.

From this perspective, the flip side is that as short as our life may be, the few years we have to live out fairly burst with importance - as all eternity is lived after them.

Its almost like when we first started learning to write with a pen - you have to be so much more careful since you cannot erase using the rubber anymore.

As with so many things in life, the Lord Jesus Christ put it succinctly - "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?"