Hebrews 7:25 says of Jesus, “…He lives forever.” Commenting on this verse Scottish pastor Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910) made this poignant observation: “Men come and go. Leaders, teachers, thinkers, speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and therefore, sooner or later quenched, but He is the true Light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines forevermore.”
These are sobering words to embrace! As the Apostle James has written: “You are just a vapor that appears for a little while then vanishes” (James 4:14, NASB). Let us all resolve, in this new year, to live for eternity and not for time; to invest our lives in the things that will have eternal significance; let us apply that great piece of wisdom: “Just one life, ‘twill soon be past; just what’s done for Christ will last.”
