“Surely every man at his best state is but vapor.”
Psalm 39:5
I recently read an article and watched a short video
about Lima, Peru, and how the humidity or mist over the city is so thick every
day you can hardly see through it, but yet it never rains there. It’s dry and
the land is parched. There is no clean water in the cities and children get
diseases from polluted streams. How could scientists help this country?
Some bright students discovered that they could take
the mist above the city and, through different processes, create clean water
from it. They created billboards high in the sky that gathered the mist every
day to produce gallons of clean water for villages. What an amazing idea!
Now, take that same idea and apply it to Christians.
If we compare ourselves to the mist above Lima, only we hold life-giving
eternal water, how can we help nonbelievers receive that life? Some of us would
say it’s not our problem and everyone has to find God in their own way. But I
disagree with that theory.
I truly believe we all have a purpose on this earth.
As a believer in Christ, my purpose should be to go into the world to preach
the Gospel and be a witness. But if I just remain where I am and don’t make
contact with anyone to tell them about Jesus, what good am I? My vapor, or
life, will end and I will have not served the purpose for which I was created.
I don’t view myself as just a vapor that disappears
without making a difference! I view my life as one with purpose. If I can offer
life giving eternal water to a thirsty or parched neighbor or a stranger, I
should be doing just that! The brevity of life should be a wake-up call for
Christians—not a death sentence! Make your life count for Christ. Use the short
time you’re here to be purposeful in your relationship to people and to God.
Don’t just be a vapor!
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