What's The Point? Small, but interesting life!
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While many of us are outdoors going about activities and remembering all our fallen heroes and those who served and still serving in harms way, I'm inside reading and praying for this world in which we live.
I came across this subject, "What's the point?" In part it says scientists once thought that the vertebrate with the shortest lifespan was the turquoise killifish. This small fish lives in seasonal rain pools in equatorial Africa and must complete its life cycle in 12 weeks before the pools disappear.
But researchers from James Cook University in Australia have now found that the pygmy goby has an even shorter lifespan. It lives fast and die young. This tiny fish lives in coral reefs for an average of 56 days. Its rapid reproductive cycle is designed to help avoid extinction.
What's the point of a life that goes so fast and ends so quickly? It's a question asked by one of the wisest men who ever lived. In his later years, Solomon, the third king of Israel, wandered from God. He became spiritually disoriented and loss his sense of direction and purpose.
He looked at all his accomplishments and found them worthless. Until he remembered his God, he forgot that we live not merely for ourselves but for the honor of the one who made us worship and enjoy Him forever.
Significance is not found in the number of our days, but in what our eternal God says about how we have used them. I read Ecclesiastes 12:6-14, but this was written by Mart De Haan for our daily bread magazine.
It's amazing to read how many years Moses and many others lived and read where Jesus' life was very short. Reproductions of generations after generations are why so many of us have lived to be grand parents and in some cases great and great-great grand parents. Still other young lives are cut short without chances of becoming parents are grand parents.
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