OUR FATHER 

Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verses 4 - 5 says this;

Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

This passage contrasts the conditions of the living and the dead.

It starts with the axiom that as long as we are alive, we can have hope.

The spiritual implication is that when we are alive, we can change the equations that determine how our spiritual condition will end up once we die.

When we are alive, we are conscious of our mortality and as such, we can continue following the will of God which results in the storage of treasures in heaven. 

Once we die however, our spiritual fates are locked in and our eternal lives will be shaped by what we did when we were alive.

If we do things that continue to bless people even after we are gone, these can acrue to our spiritual standing but with time, even these  dwindle and cease when our names are eventually  forgotten by the living.

Let us lead our lives with intentional awareness of the eternal life we will enter into for which the Lord Jesus Christ paid so great a price to qualify us for.

Amen.

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