Day 3406 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.
Matthew 4:9 NIV “For what will it profit a man…” Indeed, what shall it gain if we’re to gain all there is to gain only to lose it all again? For that is the trajectory of life itself, is it not? That all that is had today will one day be held no more? That whatever we find or favor within this life within this world will matter not when we’re no longer within this life within this world? Yes, such is a certainty as the grave demands a loss of everything as even the clothes we wear within it are left to rot and return to the dust from which they’re made. And thus it’s back to the dust for us, for such is from which we came too. Yet looking around at how others are choosing to live and then even judging our own hearts and minds and plans and times as lived within the ways of this world we watch daily run itself wicked, burning a soul at both ends just to come away with some trophy that we pretend tells of our triumphs over life’s demand of our meaning, it’s all but obvious that we’ve no ...