Lil Kim's Cove was a small corner bar, practically across the street from where we lived in Georgia. Walking there to play on Thursday nights was easy. Getting home sometimes could be challenging, as we encountered a beggar or two on our path after dark. (And the website for it still stands, although it's several years old.)
But for reasons unexplained to us, that bar now is called Acers. As we understand it, poker-playing stopped there shortly after we moved to Kansas. But Thursday night games have picked up again -- with many of the same tough opponents we used to face.
Life is like that, isn't it? Poker venues come and go. The owners of a business decide to sell and retire. Even our lives can be the same way....
Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. - James 4:14 (KJV)Long before "vaping" became popular, people realized our lives were that temporary. That can seem depressing. But the Bible offers something better - even eternal:
I will sing of the Lord's great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations. - Psalm 89:1
Forever?! How?! This verse was written long before anything thought of vinyl records or .MP3's.
But believers in God have the hope they will live forever. This is the ultimate hope of the Bible:
...Because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. - Psalm 16:10-11
That "Holy One" was Jesus Christ, who died for the sins of all humans but was resurrected by God so that we might have "eternal pleasures" - with eternal life, and who knows what else.
So how are you living - like a vape, or someone walking the path to eternity?
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