This pandemic is an incredible reminder of just how short our lives really are and how everything can change in a minute. We are told in scripture that our life is but a vapor that appears for a short time and then vanishes away. We lose sight of that fact as we get caught up in living out our daily lives but a pandemic can jolt you back to reality.
In light of that biblical truth we are also told in scripture to redeem the time every day because we live in a toxic culture. That should cause us to walk away from all the things in life that don’t really matter to make sure we finish running our race. This post by Desiring God is excellent:
“As two hundred thousand people pass into eternity, and two hundred thousand families feel the sting of loved ones lost, Moses’s uncomfortable prayer presses itself upon us: “Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12).
Teach us, O God, to see in these two hundred thousand deaths a foreshadow of our own. Teach us to feel that our lives, however long, are “like a dream, like grass that . . . fades and withers” (Psalm 90:5–6). And do it so that we may get a heart of wisdom. So that we may give ourselves, while the vapor of life still lingers, to the only work that will enter eternity.”