Job 7:6-10 says: “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope. O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness. You see me now, but not for long. You will look for me, but I will be gone. Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back. They are gone forever from their home--never to be seen again." (NLT) It might be easy to dismiss Job's lament-filled prayer for its theological deficiency even as he suffers so terribly. We might be able to brush Job's lament aside if the reality of brevity--how quickly our lives race by--were only relevant to him. But of course his lament has relevance for us too. And what's determined in this weaver-shuttle-fast-life is something that won't be short-lived--that would be eternity. As for Jesus, eternity was certainly not a subject He ever avoided talking about. In so many of His red-letter words our Lord indicated that where and how we spent the next life would be determined by our faith in Him (or lack thereof) in this life. It begs then the question: Where do you stand with Jesus, with all He said and all He did?
