Today, odd renewing your mind.

It does seem at times as though life gives to us more failures than successes,

more unhappiness than happiness.

And yet, we see how people will claw and fight tooth and nail

to hang on to whatever it is that we call life for another five minutes.

It's true. So many people are unsure about what lives on the other side,

so they'd rather hold onto the pain of this world.

But we tend to be short-sighted.

We assign too much value to this life and not enough to the next.

There is life after death, though, a glorious life that God is secured for those who take refuge in Him.

Where am I going to be a hundred years from now?

Have you ever asked yourself that question?

Because as soon as we extend the calendar beyond the immediate future

and roll it out into a hundred years from now,

we are asking the question that Joe Bask if a man dies.

Will he live again?

It's a question that the human race seems to be preoccupied with.

It's not simply a question raised by religious people,

but in our own culture, we've seen the attention that the media has given to people

like Shirley McLean, who speculates about reincarnation and previous incarnations that she's had.

We see, as we drive through the towns of America,

the symbol of the hand in somebody's yard where Madame So-and-So will offer for a fee to read your palm

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