Is that all there is?

I own an Apple iPhone (please forgive me if you are a Samsung user!) and I also subscribe to Apple Music. Each week Apple and its algorithms kindly curate a list of songs for me to listen to.

Recently the list included a song by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa called “For my friends”. It’s one I particularly enjoy. The song’s theme is perhaps summed up by the lyrics “we are here today and gone tomorrow, none of us knows when life will end, I said some nasty things that caused you sorrow, but I wanna keep you for my friend.”

These lines reminded me of something which I find myself thinking about more and more often -  the rather bleak prospect that the older I get the more likely I am to die. A further facet of that thinking is that I really have absolutely no idea when that will be and how it will happen. The fact is that due to my increasing age, the odds are higher that it will happen to me in the not too distant future. But in fact, it can happen to any one of us at any time. So the bottom line which the song reinforces, is make the most of your life now. Don’t let problems get in the way of how you relate to other people and be grateful for what you have. There is a verse in the Bible book of Ecclesiastes which kind of echoes these sentiments. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10 NKJV)

But is that all there is? Does the grave have to be the end? Most assuredly it does not! The Bible gives us God‘s message which tells us that there is much more to life,and that there is a promise of a perfect and eternal life available to all of us. Read your Bible to find out more about this amazing prospect.