Pointless!

"Pointless! Everything is Pointless!"

I've hinted at this a few times throughout this blog, but i guess today i'll get to break it down to the nitty-gritty. Life is a wisp of vapor (James 4:14), life is short. We all have to understand that. It comes and goes. It is hard for us to understand until we have left the earth, but it is. 80-90 years on average seems long. Sometimes in life, it feels like life passes by like a turtle. I remember when i was young, i wanted to get into my -teens, and i was thinking, "wow, im like 8 years old. im not gonna get to 20. Thats EONS away". But sometimes, you experience life in the speedway. In a blink of an eye, here i am, im 16 going on 17. And life isnt slowing down any more. This semester by itself passed by like a fast muffin.

Now the next thing we must learn to realize is that, just like what i said up there, everything is pointless. Yup. This is definitely a shocker, but its true in the long run. Your career, your friends, your family, the money you make, the cars you drive, the advance technologies you may get, its all pointless. The moment you die, its all taken away. While your soul and spirit leave this earth, to face judgement, your cars, your cash, and even your friends are left on earth. In the moment, yes they are important, careers give us money to continue to help us live on by providing things we need. But i think the underlying lesson here is idolatry. Dont idolize these things. These things you can live without. For sure.

I remember when i was younger, i wrote this passage/composition for my mom just for english improvement reasons, and it was about an emergency list. What must we bring when there's a fire, a flood, or something. While everyone awaited for the long list of materials and essentials, mine came with one word and one word only. God. This is true, have faith that God will provide, but REALISTICALLY, you do need your passport and all, but GOD should be the one and only thing that you rely on all the time 100% because he's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow (Hebrews 13:8). He's the ONE thing you CAN actually rely on at all times.

Recently, i lost my ipod touch. fourth generation. only four months old. I was really devastated. at this loss. I didnt understand why that happened, especially since it happened while i went to go help a friend in need. I questioned "REALLY? this is what i end up with when i go do something good?" This really doesnt make sense. Yes, it was and still is pretty hard to live without it but now i've come to realize a lot from it. For one, just like my Pastor preached this sunday, that suffering (ha i guess you can call it that), is used by God to help divert your eyes from something temporary. Maybe God knew i was idolizing my ipod. And now i think of it, how much i care about it, maybe i was. And praise God for taking that away. Look at me now! Ipod-less, and im still alive. Realize that the ipod will eventually fade, may it get lost, or it will break down anyways someday. Its the past. We HAVE to accept that.

¹⁹ Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. ²⁰ All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. - Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

verse of the night: Psalm 90:9-10

⁹ All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.
¹⁰ Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.