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To see a man die without Christ is like standing at a distance, and seeing a man fall from a lofty cliff, we see him fall, but we do not see the crash on the rocks below.

Our vision only allows us to see up to death, but.

In every land, in every climate, scenes of misery and wretchedness everywhere meet the eye, besides those deeper griefs and heart-rending sorrows which lie concealed. Well is this earth called “a valley of tears,” for it is wet with them in infancy, youth, manhood, and old age.

He often leaves it with an agonizing groan.

He comes into the world with a wailing cry, and.

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal.”įrom the cradle to the coffin, affliction and sorrow are the appointed lot of man. This quote is close but not the exact inspired words of the Bible, the verses in 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 talks about troubles being temporary.

These words from the second stanza of this famous poem has phrases that is often attributed to the New Testament, except that it is not there. In life we are given the choice to become aligned with the righteousness of God, or to settle in the nest of disobedience, these choices, I believe, aligns with what the poet Rudyard Kipling said in his poem "IF" when he wrote, “If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same”. Therefore, we can say the one occurring thing in life that is viable in the universe is change.

This quote is a reminder for us all that regardless of how the happenstances of life, and how it has dealt us its hand for us to play in life, it will soon pass. This common phrase, “This too shall pass” has a long history, but the origin ca not be pinned down to one person.