“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

               -James 4:14

Over the last several years, one thing God has made me increasingly aware of is the uncertainty of life. At any given moment your time on this earth, or that of a close loved one, could be eternally ended. Perhaps today you awoke from a comfortable sleep to the sound of a favorite song playing on the radio. Perhaps tomorrow everything you’ve ever worked for will crumble like castles in the sand. Even if the things you value most are in fact worthwhile, tomorrow is not a promise and neither are any of the temporal blessings we usually assume will come along with it.

As the Scriptures state in Ecclesiastes 5:15, “As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.” In other words, we were born with nothing and when we die we’ll leave with nothing. All of the treasures we could ever hope to accumulate along the way are, according to Solomon, “vanity and vexation of spirit” (Eccl. 1:14). What are you pursuing?