The Lord says …
The heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and those who live on it will die like gnats;
but my salvation will be forever.
Striking image. We'll die like gnats?! I suspect that means that our lifespan will be short. (I hope that it doesn't mean that we'll get swatted!)
The typical lifespan of a gnat is about a week - though it doesn't seem like that at our house right now. We transported some fruit flies into the house on some green chiles, and they've been with us for weeks.
We must be on the fourth or fifteenth generation of gnats by now. But that's how life on earth must seem from the perspective of heaven. As the old funeral prayer goes: "O Lord, the generations rise and fall before you …" “Like gnats,” I suppose we could add.
Indeed, as my hair turns grayer and the years go faster, I'm beginning to understand how the fourth generation can flip so very quickly to the fifteenth generation. But no matter how long we get, that's our time on earth - a breath of a gnat.
But ... how long is our time in God's forever?!
Imagine it like this: Imagine a very strong (and very long living) gnat. Imagine that he picks up a grain of sand on the Atlantic coast. Then he flies it to the Pacific coast and drops it off. Then this weary gnat flies back to the Atlantic and picks up another grain of sand. Back-and-forth he goes until the entire Atlantic seaboard is empty of grains of sand. How long would that take?! Well, that's just the beginning of forever!
In Christ's Love,
a guy who is glad
that fruit flies only
live for a week
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