"You Are A Vapor That Appears For A Little While And Then Vanishes!"

Both are buried in the same dust--

both eaten by the same maggots! 

(Thomas Brooks, "Apples of Gold" 1660)

"What is your life? You are a vapor 
that appears for a little while and 
then vanishes!"  James 4:14

Youth is as fickle as old age. 

Every day's experience tells us, 

that the young man's life is as 

much a vapor as the old man's is. 

The young man will find many graves 

of his length in the graveyard. As green 

wood and old logs meet in one fire--

so young sinners and old sinners 

meet in one Hell and burn together!

When the young man is in his spring 

and prime, then he is cut off and dies: 

"One person dies in prosperity, 
completely comfortable and 
secure, the picture of good health, 
vigorous and fit. Another person 
dies in bitter poverty, never having 
tasted the good life. But both are 
buried in the same dust--
both eaten by the same maggots!" 
Job 21:23-26.

"All men are like grass, and all their glory 
is like the flowers of the field. The grass 
withers and the flowers fall, because 
the breath of the LORD blows on them. 
Surely the people are grass!"  Isaiah 40:6-7

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"Christians like the Sun!"