WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT LIFE
Throughout scripture God speaks concerning life and its briefness. He is omnipotent and sovereign. We can rest in the knowledge that His ways are perfect and right. He has promised to never leave us or forsake us and to go with us through life right to death. Psalm 48:14 tells us "For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death." God is the giver of our life and very breath. As we think on how brief our life is here on earth, our prayer should be that of the psalmist in Psalm 90:12 "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."
James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
James 1:9-10 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Psalm 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Isaiah 38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isaiah 40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Isaiah 40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
1 Samuel 20:3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
Psalm 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity (Like a breath). Selah.
Psalm 90:9-10 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.