The death rate remains around 100%. There's just no getting around that right now. Yet there seems to be a race to wealth and power that fools some into thinking that by getting enough of it, they will cheat it. The truth is, it is by God's grace that we live... and I don't just mean physical life. I mean having a life that is worth living. If we live our lives thinking that all we have is permanent, and that somehow we can secure it all, we are living blindly. Only when we realize that life is fragile and that things are temporary, do we even come to appreciate them in the first place.
Readings: Nehemiah 7:61-9:21; 1 Corinthians 9:1-18; Psalm 33:12-22; Proverbs 21:11-12
