LIVING WATERS
For the proclamation of the Gospel and the edification of the Body of Christ
The Great Theater of Human Life
All earthly things are but scenes in the great drama of human life, and none of them are important enough in themselves to be the object of our attention. They are only matters of the present, and our soul needs greater and nobler things.
In the theater, some actors are laughing, but their laughter is not genuine; some are weeping, but their tears are not sincere; some are marrying, but the marriage is not real; some are buying great estates, but they own nothing; some are dressed as kings, but their kingdom does not exist.
It is an imaginary world that soon fades away, and the apostle says that the things of this world soon pass away, and that nothing temporal is worthy to be the aim of our living. The noble and good things of this world only symbolize better and more enduring things.
To the tears of life, we are not to attach too much importance; the joys of home are but the pastime of a passage along the path of life; the business of this life is but the apprenticeship to a nobler service in the work of God.
All things are transitory and accidental. We are to live beyond them. We are to use this world, but not to abuse it. We are to live under the power of the world to come. (A.B. Simpson, in The Apostolic Church).