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🗓️ 28 December 2019
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Christmas is a season, so, Merry Christmas!
In this video, I dive into some word origins and Bible verses that have to do with the brevity of life. Natura is the Latin root for nativity and nature and natural — and it has to do with things coming into being.
We often treat life like a giant game of dodgeball and we hear about someone dying we think “Oh, that’s too bad they got hit with the ball” as if we’re never going to get hit. We’ll be the last man standing forever.
The word of God teaches us otherwise. you and I will spend a brain-fracturing long amount of time in eternity in the life to come, whether in heaven or in hell, compared to the short decades we spend here in this life.
With each 52-week unit of time known as one year that we experience the subsequent 52-week units of time seem to go by faster with each passing year.
Isn’t that true?
Didn’t Christmas seem to come around every 10 years or so when you were a little kid?
So here are seven Bible verses on the brevity of life:
1. Psalms 90:10
2. Psalms 144:4
3. Job 9:25-26
4. 1 Chronicles 29:15
5. Luke 12:20
6. James 4:14
7. Hebrews 2: 14-15
The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ have changed death from a black pit into a well-lit door.
The great playwright and Catholic convert Tennessee Williams wrote something fascinating and very practical about the brevity of life. I’ll close with this:
“In the time of your life–live!” That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.”
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0:00.0 | Since Christmas is a season and not a day, Merry Christmas. |
0:07.0 | The Christmas season focuses on birth and the beginnings of our salvation. |
0:12.0 | Natura is the Latin root of nature and natural and nativity, |
0:16.0 | and it has to do with things coming into being. |
0:18.0 | In this case, it's the coming into being, |
0:20.0 | with his human nature, of the divine son of God in Bethlehem. The New Year |
0:25.7 | brings with it the memories of this past year and the hopes and fears and dreams of |
0:30.3 | the coming year. We often treat life like a giant game of Dodgeball and when we hear |
0:34.9 | someone dying we think oh that's too bad they got hit with the ball. We're never |
0:39.4 | going to get hit with the ball right we'll be the last man standing forever. |
0:42.2 | Another way to say this is to say that |
0:44.4 | we live as though tomorrow is owed to us somehow. You and I will spend a brain fracturingly long |
0:51.2 | amount of time in eternity in the life to come, |
0:53.8 | whether in heaven or hell, |
0:55.0 | compared to the short years we spend here in this life. |
0:58.0 | Thankfully, the word of God offers a very clear message |
1:00.5 | that's vital to remember and stupid to forget. And that is the sheer |
1:06.0 | brevity of life. With each 52-week unit of time known as one year that we experience the subsequent 52 week |
1:15.3 | units seem to go by faster and faster with each passing year isn't it true didn't |
1:21.2 | Christmas seem to come around every 10 years or so when you were a little kid? |
1:24.4 | So here are seven Bible verses on the brevity of life. |
1:28.4 | Number one, Psalm 90 verse 10, the days of our years are three score in ten and if by reason of strength they be four |
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