Amazing. It has been twice this week, that two different persons mention in front of me:
"Life is short, you really really have to enjoy it and all of its precious moments before you get old."
It reminds me of statements like:"live your life as if today was your last day".
It confirms to me again that the natural man has no hope in and out of himself but place his meaning just on PAST memories. In our state of being separated from God (which Christians call "fallen state" or the state of being a sinner) we glorify ourselves but God, since we simply put our lives at the center of our own beings rather than our creator. So the natural consequence is actually to say: Enjoy life, because it's the only thing you have!
If you get to know God, which means understanding or getting to understand that you are a sinner (and that cannot be by definition be originated in and out of yourself) you automatically place your being centered in God. And since God is God, supernatural, eternal, omniscient and omnipotent, you automatically have hope in an eternal state. This can only happen if you are reconciled with him. And that happens by faith alone in an historical act that atoned for your sins. The cross of Jesus Christ.
I might fear dying, but i shall not fear death anymore, since eternity starts from the moment you are being saved and are adopted as child of God into the eternal kingdom of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit.
