Greetings...
"Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths , and my age is as nothing before You; certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah. Surely every man walks about like a shadow; surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches and does not know who will gather them." (Psalm 39:4-6)
"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit...crime does not pay. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man...the SHADOW KNOWS." (Lamont Cranston...aka The Shadow)
The Shadow can cloud the minds of men and make them think they can't see them as he fights crime...BUT in reality...the shadows are fleeting, weak, and ineffective. As powerful as we think we are...when we come face to face with reality...we are like vapors...dissipating in the air when sunshine penetrates. Vapors are also fleeting, weak, and ineffective.
"Come now, you who say...Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, by and sell and make a profit...whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears fro a little time and then vanish away. Instead, you out to say, if the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that. But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore...to him who know to do good and does not do it...to him it is sin." (James 4:13-17)
In our fleeting, weak, ineffective, frail, evil arrogant boasting...we must come to this position about life..."My hope is in You." (Psalm 39:7)
As we plod along on this terrestrial ball...3rd rock from the Sun...planet Earth...I join the Psalmist...
"Hear my prayer, O Lord...and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears...for I am a STRANGER with You...a SOJOURNER...as all my fathers were." (Psalm 39:12)
I don't want to be on God's bad side...with his gaze (that breaks apart shadows and vapors).
"Remove Your gaze from me...that I may regain strength...before I go away and am no more."
(Psalm 39:13)
Love and Non-Vaporized Kisses
Rodney "Who Knows What Evil Lurks In The Hearts Of Men...God Knows" Boyd
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