Category: Questions About Life

Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

We wrote a devotional recently based on James 4:14 (life is a vapor) and Ecclesiastes 1:14 (all is vanity and grasping for the wind). In it, we asked the question, “what is life?”.

In response, we had a reader write and ask if this contradicts the idea that life is a gift from God. So, we wanted to clarify this to avoid any kind of misunderstanding.

To answer the question directly, life is definitely a gift from God, no matter how we look at it.

But, to make sense of this and divide the gift from the vapor and the grasping for the wind, let’s break it down a bit further.

When we have the gift of life, given to us by God himself, the question comes down to what we do with it. Do we simply live it as though it is our own, with no accountability to our Creator? Or do we give it to Him and let Him direct our paths?

That right there will determine how we see life as a whole.

James spoke of life being like a vapor. A lifespan is short when compared to eternity. We are here and then gone in a very short time, just as a vapor that comes and goes very quickly.

Solomon spoke about how so much of the way we spend our lives is simply grasping for the wind. Life itself is not grasping for the wind. But the way we spend it can be.

Do we delight ourselves in the Lord, as mentioned in the verse above?

This verse in Proverbs sums it all up nicely:

Proverbs 3:6 (NKJV) 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

You see, if we delight ourselves in Him, and we acknowledge Him in all we do, our lives will never be like grasping for the wind. On the contrary, they will be blessed in so many ways. Psalm 37:4 says He will give us the desires of our heart.

Now that doesn’t sound like grasping for the wind, does it?

It’s all about perspective, and about the choices we make during our ever-so-short lives.

What will we choose? Will we choose to delight ourselves in Him? Will we acknowledge Him in all our ways?

The answers to those two questions will outweigh everything else about our lives.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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